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Is my personal pandemic almost over?
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Choose your own adventure with Kitty Jospé
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Spring cleaning and kite flying at Brighton Town P...
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Daniel Prude’s Law is overdue and will work
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Illegal and unethical dumping next to abandoned fa...
Posted by [email protected] | Mar 26, 2021 | Social Issues | 0 |
City Council candidate Alex White (D) on the primary process and gathering petition signatures
by [email protected] | Apr 13, 2021 | Politics | 0 |
[Alex White (once G, now D) outside Boldo’s Armory. Photo: David Kramer 4/13/21] Last month,...
Read MoreIs my personal pandemic almost over?
by [email protected] | Apr 8, 2021 | Social Issues | 0 |
[4/7/21 David Kramer, now double vaccinated, at the Dome Arena in Henrietta wearing two VACCINATE...
Read MoreChoose your own adventure with Kitty Jospé
by [email protected] | Apr 6, 2021 | Cultural Life | 0 |
[David Kramer at the Lower Falls near the Seth Green Trail, Photo: Dean Tucker, 6/18/16 from...
Read MoreSpring cleaning and kite flying at Brighton Town Park
by [email protected] | Apr 1, 2021 | Cultural Life, Events of the Day | 0 |
Over the last several weeks, Christine Platt has organized Saturday morning cleanups on the trails...
Read MoreDaniel Prude’s Law is overdue and will work
by [email protected] | Mar 31, 2021 | Social Issues | 0 |
[6/13/20. (l-r) Chennel Anderson, Frederick Douglass and Kelly Linn Kreider. Olivia Kim’s statue...
Read MoreIllegal and unethical dumping next to abandoned farm at the Highland Crossing with Christine Platt
by [email protected] | Mar 26, 2021 | Social Issues | 0 |
[Christine Platt at the recently dumped wood debris. Photo: David Kramer 3/21/21 see Community in...
Read MoreCommunity in action, Part I: Sprucing up the Highland Crossing Trail
by [email protected] | Mar 20, 2021 | Cultural Life | 2 |
[3/20/21 Kadience (left) and Ginny Lenyk in the cattails next to the trail and across from Empire...
Read MoreBreaking ground on the Auburn Trail in Brighton
by [email protected] | Mar 16, 2021 | Cultural Life | 1 |
[3/15/21 (WHAM photo) Brighton town leaders broke ground on the Auburn Trail project tied to the...
Read MoreIf it’s baseball, it’s Bill Pruitt: “PENNANT RACE 2021: THE BEST TEAM IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST TEAM”
by [email protected] | Mar 15, 2021 | Sports | 0 |
[1965 Topps Baseball 138 World Series #7 Bob Gibson Wins Finale (ebay)] Since 2017, every spring...
Read MoreDear Diary: My week as a Nielsen radio survey respondent
by [email protected] | Mar 6, 2021 | Cultural Life | 0 |
[Diary, cash and radios. Photo: David Kramer 3/4/21] Last month, I received a call from the...
Read MoreLocal Poet offers an Acrostic/Telestich poem about the Highland Crossing Trail
by [email protected] | Mar 1, 2021 | Cultural Life | 0 |
[The ruins of the abandoned farmhouse on the Highland Crossing Trail in Brighton where an old man...
Read MoreExotic animals once lived next to the Highland Crossing Trail
by [email protected] | Feb 25, 2021 | Cultural Life | 0 |
[Photo: David Kramer 2/21/21. The Highland Crossing Trail. To the left are the abandoned...
Read MoreShould the Rochester Police Locust Club and the Irondequoit Police Night Stick Club consider a name change?
by [email protected] | Feb 22, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
[Photo: David Kramer, 6/5/20. The Monroe County Office Building on West Main Street from A Black...
Read MoreFarewell, Frank Judge whose words are marked on the Poets Walk on University Avenue
by [email protected] | Feb 21, 2021 | Cultural Life | 1 |
[This tile, # 66, represents a poem by Frank Judge at the Rochester Poets Walk on University...
Read MoreCAMERA ROCHESTER celebrates its 50th ANNIVERSARY at IMAGE CITY PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY
by [email protected] | Feb 19, 2021 | Cultural Life | 0 |
[Image City Photography, 722 University Avenue, site of the 50th anniversary exhibit of Camera...
Read MoreBefore and after the (disappointing) Déluge at the Highland Crossing
by [email protected] | Feb 16, 2021 | Cultural Life | 0 |
[2/16/21 The Highland Crossing Trail in Brighton. Photos: David Kramer 2/15 and 2/16] As seen...
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by [email protected] | Oct 1, 2015 | About
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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by [email protected] | Jun 25, 2016 | History, Politics
RAB with FDR in Washington Square Park 6/16/16 I went to Washington Square Park to hear why Rachel...
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by [email protected] | Mar 28, 2017 | Cultural Life
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by [email protected] | May 9, 2017 | Human Interest
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Read MoreThe Presidential Visits Series in its entirety: James Monroe to Donald Trump
by [email protected] | Mar 8, 2018 | History
Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, 32 have stopped in Rochester...
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by [email protected] | Apr 5, 2018 | Talker of the Town
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by [email protected] | Mar 8, 2019 | History
Provided by Rosemary Lloyd. Signed copy of the 25th anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five by...
Read More“Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story:” New and Improved
by [email protected] | Mar 27, 2019 | Cultural Life
The Wells-Brown Room, Rush Rhees library, the University of Rochester. Just SOME of Crane’s books...
Read MoreWhy I voted for Adam Bello and a trip down Talker political memory lane, 2015 – 2020
by [email protected] | Oct 29, 2019 | Politics
Adam Bello at the 2019 Labor Day Parade. [Photo: David Kramer] Last Saturday, the first day of...
Read MoreDr. Joseph Roby could not save Lenore Engel, 11, victim of the 1918 pandemic buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery
by [email protected] | Mar 24, 2020 | History
Growing up on 39 Wilkins Street near Joseph Avenue in a German, possibly Jewish, family, Lenore...
Read MoreWhen Washington Square Park felt like Tiananmen Square
by [email protected] | Sep 11, 2020 | Social Issues
The bus stop on Court Street [Photo: David Kramer, 9/4/20] Last Friday, September the 4th, I heard...
Read MoreIn search of the missing 19 granite timepieces at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1973 – September 11th, 2001
by [email protected] | Dec 6, 2020 | History
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Highland Park. The area that contained the missing last 19 granite...
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