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Farewell, Amy Kaplan, author of “B...

The Wedge Publishes “South Wedge F...

A memory card (2016/2017) found and thre...

CITY publishes “Picking up the sla...

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Saying goodbye to the weekday print edit...

Our 4th birthday and Bill Pruitt’s...

Eugene Kramer: August 14th, 1929 to June...

Leslie pines for her shrines

Why I am rooting for the Patriots

“The love ($) you get is equal to ...

Site says Brighton is best place to live...

Thanks, Anonymous Donor!

Farewell, RochesterSubway.com! And thank...

Talker’s Foreign Correspondent sen...

Talker’s experiment is an “i...

Help Talker fill its empty hat

Happy 2nd Birthday Talker and “Tal...

Highland Park over many years

Pax Brightonia

Life as a D & C blogger. The lost p...

Nighan makes print edition of The Atlant...

In defense of Facebook’s Your Year...

Buffalo hears from George: “Trump ...

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Athesia in the City

Happy First Birthday! Distinguished poet...

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism to ...

One of the largest LGBTQ libraries in th...

Talker invited to the University of Roch...

Brighton-Pittsford Post prints “Ga...

Paying ahead, the Good Luck Restaurant, ...

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Should 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, Amy Kaplan, author of “Black and Blue on San Juan Hill” and inspiration for Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story
by [email protected] | Dec 1, 2020 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Cultures of United States Imperialism, Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, Editors, Duke University...
Read MoreThe Wedge Publishes “South Wedge Food Program Helps People through Pandemic”
by [email protected] | Oct 18, 2020 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
David Kramer and green pumpkin in the Alison Clarke Garden [Photo by South Wedge Food Program’s...
Read MoreA memory card (2016/2017) found and three forgotten stories: Carrie Nation and a Speak Easy at the School Without Walls, The New York Icons at UR’s Palestra and a re-creation of John Henry’s quest at Tops Friendly Market
by [email protected] | May 14, 2020 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
4/9/17. New York Icons on the University of Rochester’s Wilson Quadrangle at the Spirit...
Read MoreCITY publishes “Picking up the slack”
by [email protected] | Dec 20, 2019 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Last week Talker answered the CITY’s call to submit a FEEDBACK letter, hoping to encourage...
Read MoreHelp make Talker even greater as the magazine expands its digital footprint
by [email protected] | Oct 21, 2019 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Audrey Boyce interviewing Talker. From “The love ($) you get is equal to the love ($) you...
Read MoreSaying goodbye to the weekday print edition of the Democrat and Chronicle
by [email protected] | Oct 13, 2019 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
For reasons big and small, I finally unsubscribed to the weekday print edition of the Rochester...
Read MoreOur 4th birthday and Bill Pruitt’s “Happy Birthday Talker!”
by [email protected] | Sep 29, 2019 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Over the last four years, Bill Pruitt has delighted and challenged us with prose, poetry and story...
Read MoreEugene Kramer: August 14th, 1929 to June 30th, 2019
by [email protected] | Jul 5, 2019 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Eugene Kramer For years, Talker readers have enjoyed Eugene Kramer’s commentary on jazz,...
Read MoreLeslie pines for her shrines
by [email protected] | Mar 31, 2019 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
David (left) and Leslie Kramer, 31 Ledgewood Road, Kingston, Rhode Island, 1994 [Photo: Shrine...
Read MoreWhy I am rooting for the Patriots
by [email protected] | Dec 7, 2018 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
[UPDATES: see If the Patriots win the Super Bowl, credit Talker and Returning to the fold: better...
Read More“The love ($) you get is equal to the love ($) you give” — adapted from John Lennon
by [email protected] | Nov 20, 2018 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Remember the Eddie Meath Penny Fund? Up to the mid-nineties, the fund — founded by famed...
Read MoreSite says Brighton is best place to live in New York
by [email protected] | Apr 5, 2018 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Twelve Corners Memorial Park, Brighton, NY 4/5/18 [Photo: David Kramer] Recently, the Rochester...
Read MoreThanks, Anonymous Donor!
by [email protected] | Jan 11, 2018 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Recently — to mixed success — we had a fundraising drive. For those who wanted...
Read MoreFarewell, RochesterSubway.com! And thanks for your labor of love.
by [email protected] | Jan 6, 2018 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
From Rochester Subway Today — belatedly — I learned that the blog Rochester Subway has...
Read MoreTalker’s Foreign Correspondent sends donation home
by [email protected] | Dec 23, 2017 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
In Help Talker fill its empty hat and Talker’s experiment is an “incomplete...
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Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, 32 have stopped in Rochester...
Read MoreSite says Brighton is best place to live in New York
by [email protected] | Apr 5, 2018 | Talker of the Town
Twelve Corners Memorial Park, Brighton, NY 4/5/18 [Photo: David Kramer] Recently, the Rochester...
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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...
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by [email protected] | Mar 24, 2020 | History
Growing up on 39 Wilkins Street near Joseph Avenue in a German, possibly Jewish, family, Lenore...
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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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