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![“The process of [the Electoral College] election affords a moral certainty” The Federalist Papers, Number 68. And a Petition.](https://i0.wp.com/talkerofthetown.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/trump-1.jpg?resize=440%2C264&ssl=1)
Listening to the inauguration at the same spot, four years later: From “American Carnage” to “The Hill We Climb”
1/20/20. 11:53a.m. The Water Towers in Washington Grove, Cobb’s Hill. The ice is not thick...
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Democrat and Chronicle prints “Chilling to think Trump could run for a federal office again”
©Ingram Pinn/Financial Times. From “A Senate trial is not the right answer to Donald...
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I didn’t vote for you, but job well done, Congressman Tom Reed (R-Corning)
Nazareth College, Pittsford, NY, October 26th, 2010. Headline: Zeller, Reed, cover issues in...
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Trump’s Banana Peel? (306 doesn’t always equal 306)
Cartoon: Joep Bertrams, The Netherlands, May 19, 2017 by Michael J. Nighan When Georgia was...
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Trump Stole the Election from Himself
A depiction of politicians trying to buy votes from an 1857 Harper’s Weekly. [Photo: Library of...
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D & C prints “It’s up to us all to cure what ails this country”
11/14/20, Meadowbrook, Brighton, NY. A Biden household next to a Trump household. [Photo: David...
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The election of 2024 could be a replay of 1844
Davy Crockett (center), lifting his famous rifle Betsy, tries to beat off the Mexican troop...
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Responsibility after Trump
11/14/20, Meadowbrook, Brighton, NY [Photo: David Kramer] by George Cassidy Payne I was texting...
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A Win for Progressivism in 2020
Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago for the 1912 Progressive Party National Convention. Credit: Chicago...
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The People Have Spoken
The polling place at Empire State College, Westfall Road. 6:03 a.m. [Photo: David Kramer,...
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On Election Day morning, Bill Pruitt offers “Abating the Wave Machine”
Voters lined up outside Carmen Clark Lodge in Brighton Town Park, Westfall Road, 5:57 a.m. [Photo:...
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On election eve, Bill Pruitt offers “The Strange Motion of October 2020” and John Roche offers “Que Sera, Sera”
Early voting at Empire State College, 10/31/20 [Photo: David Kramer] See At Empire State College,...
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At Empire State College, I voted for “?”
Outside the 1872 Cafe on 431 W Main Street casting my vote in the original ballot box used by...
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Letter to the Editor: Joe Biden has honored thousands of military members
The Timeline at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater Rochester in Highland Park [Photo: David...
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The 2020 Republican National Convention and William Jennings Bryan’s speech at Brown’s Square, August 26th, 1896
West Main St from Art Work of Rochester the Flower City, 1896. Banners showing Republican...
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10 Reasons President Trump Should Wear a Mask
— by George Cassidy Payne 1. To symbolically apologize to every woman who he has...
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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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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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Bill Pruitt offers “TALKER’S BIRTHDAY:” Five years and counting
On September 28th, 2016 with “Ode to the Talker”, we launched what has become perhaps...
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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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