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Paul Auster’s “Burning Boy...

Thanks Mom for decades of Christmas Eve&...

Nighan adds to Nathaniel Hawthorne and W...

Talker featured in Brighton Connections

More on Carol Kramer (1933 – 2021)...

Carol Kramer 5/29/33 – 10/16/21

Bill Pruitt celebrates Talker’s si...

On finding a Confederate grave in Spence...

Should the Rochester Police Locust Club ...

Farewell, Amy Kaplan, author of “B...

The Wedge Publishes “South Wedge F...

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

Leslie pines for her shrines

Why I am rooting for the Patriots

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Talker’s Foreign Correspondent sen...

Talker’s experiment is an “i...

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Highland Park over many years

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

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Buffalo hears from George: “Trump ...

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Athesia in the City

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One of the largest LGBTQ libraries in th...

Talker invited to the University of Roch...

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Paying ahead, the Good Luck Restaurant, ...

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Happy Birthday Mom, we miss you so
by [email protected] | May 29, 2022 | Talker of the Town | 2 |
[From Carol Kramer’s collection] A wise friend told me that mourning is about missed firsts:...
Read MorePaul Auster’s “Burning Boy” and how you can make $ reading “Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story”
by [email protected] | Jan 6, 2022 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
[Bench in Brighton Town Park where David Kramer stops to listen to scenes on his radio when...
Read MoreThanks Mom for decades of Christmas Eve’s with the Yule Log and Dress Up games
by [email protected] | Dec 22, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
[Carol Kramer’s “Yule Log,” Photo: David Kramer, 12/22/21, see To Mom with love...
Read MoreNighan adds to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving scholarship
by [email protected] | Dec 14, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
[“Washington Irving and His Literary Friends at Sunnyside.” Irving seated in center dressed in...
Read MoreTalker featured in Brighton Connections
by [email protected] | Nov 6, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
Brighton Connections_Nov 21 (pdf) The article included two excursions to the Brighton Memorial...
Read MoreMore on Carol Kramer (1933 – 2021) and Tales of the Highland Crossing in Brighton
by [email protected] | Oct 26, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 2 |
[Carol Kramer in the mid-1970s when she taught mathematics at Mercy High School. From Carol Kramer...
Read MoreCarol Kramer 5/29/33 – 10/16/21
by [email protected] | Oct 16, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 5 |
[Carol Kramer in the mid-1970s when she taught mathematics at Mercy High School. From Dr. Harold...
Read MoreBill Pruitt celebrates Talker’s sixth birthday with “Human News”
by [email protected] | Sep 27, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
[Lux Lounge at 666 South Avenue, Photo: David Kramer, 9/20/21, see Impromptu poetry slam at Lux...
Read MoreOn finding a Confederate grave in Spencerport with Andre Marquis (BHS ’81, UR ’86) from UC Berkeley
by [email protected] | Jun 19, 2021 | Talker of the Town | 0 |
[6/15/21 Fairfield Cemetery in Spencerport, NY. Andre Marquis at the Grand Army of the Republic...
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, 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...
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by [email protected] | Oct 1, 2015 | About
[Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1981. Caption: Dave Kramer of Brighton concentrates on his next...
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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
You first met Che in Rochester works for actor Che Holloway, an impromptu interview and amble...
Read MoreThe Presidential Visits Series in its entirety: James Monroe to Joseph Biden
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...
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...
Read MoreKurt Vonnegut’s 1995 “Billy Pilgrim” pilgrimage to the Mt. Hope grave of Edward R. Crone Jr, Brighton High School ’41
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 – 2021
by [email protected] | Oct 29, 2019 | Politics
Adam Bello at the 2019 Labor Day Parade. [Photo: David Kramer] SEE ALL PHOTOS 2015 – 2021...
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...
Read MoreBill Pruitt celebrates Talker’s sixth birthday with “Human News”
by [email protected] | Sep 27, 2021 | Talker of the Town
[Lux Lounge at 666 South Avenue, Photo: David Kramer, 9/20/21, see Impromptu poetry slam at Lux...
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