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City Council candidate Alex White (D) on the primary process and gathering petition signatures
[Alex White (once G, now D) outside Boldo’s Armory. Photo: David Kramer 4/13/21] Last month,...
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Is my personal pandemic almost over?
[4/7/21 David Kramer, now double vaccinated, at the Dome Arena in Henrietta wearing two VACCINATE...
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Choose your own adventure with Kitty Jospé
[David Kramer at the Lower Falls near the Seth Green Trail, Photo: Dean Tucker, 6/18/16 from...
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Spring cleaning and kite flying at Brighton Town Park
Over the last several weeks, Christine Platt has organized Saturday morning cleanups on the trails...
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Daniel Prude’s Law is overdue and will work
[6/13/20. (l-r) Chennel Anderson, Frederick Douglass and Kelly Linn Kreider. Olivia Kim’s statue...
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Illegal and unethical dumping next to abandoned farm at the Highland Crossing with Christine Platt
[Christine Platt at the recently dumped wood debris. Photo: David Kramer 3/21/21 see Community in...
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Community in action, Part I: Sprucing up the Highland Crossing Trail
[3/20/21 Kadience (left) and Ginny Lenyk in the cattails next to the trail and across from Empire...
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Breaking ground on the Auburn Trail in Brighton
[3/15/21 (WHAM photo) Brighton town leaders broke ground on the Auburn Trail project tied to the...
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If it’s baseball, it’s Bill Pruitt: “PENNANT RACE 2021: THE BEST TEAM IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST TEAM”
[1965 Topps Baseball 138 World Series #7 Bob Gibson Wins Finale (ebay)] Since 2017, every spring...
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Dear Diary: My week as a Nielsen radio survey respondent
[Diary, cash and radios. Photo: David Kramer 3/4/21] Last month, I received a call from the...
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Local Poet offers an Acrostic/Telestich poem about the Highland Crossing Trail
[The ruins of the abandoned farmhouse on the Highland Crossing Trail in Brighton where an old man...
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Exotic animals once lived next to the Highland Crossing Trail
[Photo: David Kramer 2/21/21. The Highland Crossing Trail. To the left are the abandoned...
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Should the Rochester Police Locust Club and the Irondequoit Police Night Stick Club consider a name change?
[Photo: David Kramer, 6/5/20. The Monroe County Office Building on West Main Street from A Black...
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Farewell, Frank Judge whose words are marked on the Poets Walk on University Avenue
[This tile, # 66, represents a poem by Frank Judge at the Rochester Poets Walk on University...
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CAMERA ROCHESTER celebrates its 50th ANNIVERSARY at IMAGE CITY PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY
[Image City Photography, 722 University Avenue, site of the 50th anniversary exhibit of Camera...
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Before and after the (disappointing) Déluge at the Highland Crossing
[2/16/21 The Highland Crossing Trail in Brighton. Photos: David Kramer 2/15 and 2/16] As seen...
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Featured Posts
Introductions
Welcome to Talker of the Town! My name is David Kramer. I have a Ph.D in English and teach at...
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Rachel’s Rebel Roots
RAB with FDR in Washington Square Park 6/16/16 I went to Washington Square Park to hear why Rachel...
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Che of The Town: Interviews (1-107)
You first met Che in Rochester works for actor Che Holloway, an impromptu interview and amble...
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Getting To Know Mayor Lovely Warren; A Trailblazing Leader Within Our City
You first met Che in Rochester works for actor Che Holloway, an impromptu interview and amble...
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The Presidential Visits Series in its entirety: James Monroe to Donald Trump
Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, 32 have stopped in Rochester...
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Site says Brighton is best place to live in New York
Twelve Corners Memorial Park, Brighton, NY 4/5/18 [Photo: David Kramer] Recently, the Rochester...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 1995 “Billy Pilgrim” pilgrimage to the Mt. Hope grave of Edward R. Crone Jr, Brighton High School ’41
Provided by Rosemary Lloyd. Signed copy of the 25th anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five by...
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“Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story:” New and Improved
The Wells-Brown Room, Rush Rhees library, the University of Rochester. Just SOME of Crane’s books...
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Why I voted for Adam Bello and a trip down Talker political memory lane, 2015 – 2020
Adam Bello at the 2019 Labor Day Parade. [Photo: David Kramer] Last Saturday, the first day of...
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Dr. Joseph Roby could not save Lenore Engel, 11, victim of the 1918 pandemic buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery
Growing up on 39 Wilkins Street near Joseph Avenue in a German, possibly Jewish, family, Lenore...
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When Washington Square Park felt like Tiananmen Square
The bus stop on Court Street [Photo: David Kramer, 9/4/20] Last Friday, September the 4th, I heard...
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In search of the missing 19 granite timepieces at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1973 – September 11th, 2001
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Highland Park. The area that contained the missing last 19 granite...
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