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Assault on Capitol is not about Black Lives Matter
David Kramer at the 5/31/20 Black Lives Matter rally in Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park...
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(Un) Writing an old wrong in Brighton’s Meadowbrook neighborhood and a look back at B.H.S. in the late 70’s and early 80’s
Antlers Road in Meadowbrook, 9/27/20 [Photo: David Kramer] Last September, my mother walked a few...
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Hundreds receive rapid covid-19 testing at Temple B’rith Kodesh in Brighton
Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave [Photos: David Kramer 12/17] Earlier today, when at...
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I Have A Proposal for Barack Obama
Photos provided by Evalyn Gleason (in green) from her meeting with President Obama at Magnolia’s...
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What’s Wrong With Mattel’s New Susan B. Anthony Doll?
Deborah Lindenau with Susan B (Marjorie Goldman) at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum &...
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Only Parents Can Stop Children’s Addiction to Social Media
(left) daughter Audrey Boyce; (right) mother Leslie Kramer at the Strong International Museum of...
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More from Nancy O’Donnell Hale on Nathaniel Rochester: “Defaced, erased, should statue be replaced?”
6/26/20, Mt. Hope Cemetery. Nancy O’Donnell Hale at the gravesite of Nathaniel Rochester...
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The South Wedge Food Program helps people through the pandemic and beyond
Josh Knoblock, Manager, South Wedge Food Program, 68 Ashland St. outside the Calvary Presbyterian...
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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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If Nathaniel must stay, add Ned to South Wedge Monument to City Founder by Nancy O’Donnell Hale
6/26/20, Mt. Hope Cemetery. Nancy O’Donnell Hale at the gravesite of Nathaniel Rochester...
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On the Spray Painting of “Reflecting” by John Hoffman
John Hoffman. 6/24/20, Nathaniel Square, 62 Alexander Street [Photo: David Kramer] Several days...
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An open invitation to a conversation in Nathaniel Square
6/19/20. Nathaniel Square Park, 62 Alexander Street. To the right of the sculpture, David Kramer,...
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On the defacing of “Reflecting” in Nathaniel Square and restoring the grave of “America’s first professional racist” in Mt. Hope Cemetery
6/18/20. Reflecting by Pepsy Kettavong, Nathaniel Square, 62 Alexander Street. See Reflecting on...
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What is it to be “Woke?”
6/13/20. (l-r) Chennel Anderson, Frederick Douglass and Kelly Linn Kreider. Olivia Kim’s...
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Sanctioned Self Care for Police is Part of the Solution
6/5/20, Rochester Police Officers at the Black Lives STILL Matter demonstration on West Main...
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The good more than overshadowing the bad on Monroe Avenue and Liberty Pole Way
Monroe Avenue, 6/6/20. Jon Finlayson @JawnType (left) and Justin Suarez @aerosolkingdom. Except...
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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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