Another Staged Thanksgiving
— George Cassidy Payne SEE ALSO Talker’s foreign correspondent in Cambodia and the plaques in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Highland Park.
[ Read More ]Thrown Into the Bird
— George Cassidy Payne See The Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater Rochester: A Meditation on the Cost of War
[ Read More ]Adding Audrey to the Cobb’s Hill Series
For so many Cobb’s Hill is an oasis. The humming of the drums on the Reservoir steps at sunset. Cityscape views where on a clear night you can see Lake Ontario. Lovers holding hands on the slope
[ Read More ]Maundy Thursday and A Brazilian Coconut Flower
— George Cassidy Payne SEE ALSO A Response to President McMickle’s 2018 Fall Convocation Address at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
[ Read More ]Nationalism and its contradictions
In Championing Nationalism Dishonors American Soldiers (later reprinted in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a Guest Essay), George Cassidy Payne examines some of the sordid history of
[ Read More ]Veterans Day in Brighton
My favorite spot in Brighton is a bench facing the American flag and the looming stainless steel American Eagle in the Veteran’s Memorial in Buckland Park where you can see wild turkey, deer,
[ Read More ]Thumbs up for Geva’s “Thurgood”
In the last three and a half years, three plays at Geva have been based on the lives of historically prominent African-Americans: Mountaintop (2015), Martin Luther King Jr., The Agitators
[ Read More ]Bill Pruitt’s Third Birthday gift: “What You Know If You Read Talker”
For three years now in late September, magazine contributor, local poet and story teller Bill Pruitt has kindly offered a poetic birthday gift for our anniversary. Thanks again, Bill! What You
[ Read More ]The Way of Zen
by George Cassidy Payne SEE ALSO On the Thomas Merton Room and the 100th Anniversary of his birth SEE ALSO On the Thomas Merton Room and the 100th Anniversary of his birth
[ Read More ]Why Rochester Should Bring Back the Fast Ferry
by George Cassidy Payne Ask almost anyone on the street in Rochester if bringing back the Fast Ferry is a good idea and they will likely suggest resurrecting the Titantic or Hindenburg instead.
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