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Happy Birthday Mom, we miss you so
[From Carol Kramer’s collection] A wise friend told me that mourning is about missed firsts:...
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Paul Auster’s “Burning Boy” and how you can make $ reading “Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story”
[Bench in Brighton Town Park where David Kramer stops to listen to scenes on his radio when...
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Thanks Mom for decades of Christmas Eve’s with the Yule Log and Dress Up games
[Carol Kramer’s “Yule Log,” Photo: David Kramer, 12/22/21, see To Mom with love...
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Nighan adds to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving scholarship
[“Washington Irving and His Literary Friends at Sunnyside.” Irving seated in center dressed in...
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Talker featured in Brighton Connections
Brighton Connections_Nov 21 (pdf) The article included two excursions to the Brighton Memorial...
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More on Carol Kramer (1933 – 2021) and Tales of the Highland Crossing in Brighton
[Carol Kramer in the mid-1970s when she taught mathematics at Mercy High School. From Carol Kramer...
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Carol Kramer 5/29/33 – 10/16/21
[Carol Kramer in the mid-1970s when she taught mathematics at Mercy High School. From Dr. Harold...
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Bill Pruitt celebrates Talker’s sixth birthday with “Human News”
[Lux Lounge at 666 South Avenue, Photo: David Kramer, 9/20/21, see Impromptu poetry slam at Lux...
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On finding a Confederate grave in Spencerport with Andre Marquis (BHS ’81, UR ’86) from UC Berkeley
[6/15/21 Fairfield Cemetery in Spencerport, NY. Andre Marquis at the Grand Army of the Republic...
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Should the Rochester Police Locust Club and the Irondequoit Police Night Stick Club consider a name change?
[Photo: David Kramer, 6/5/20. The Monroe County Office Building on West Main Street from A Black...
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Farewell, Amy Kaplan, author of “Black and Blue on San Juan Hill” and inspiration for “Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story”
Cultures of United States Imperialism, Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, Editors, Duke University...
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The Wedge Publishes “South Wedge Food Program Helps People through Pandemic”
David Kramer and green pumpkin in the Alison Clarke Garden [Photo by South Wedge Food Program’s...
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A 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
4/9/17. New York Icons on the University of Rochester’s Wilson Quadrangle at the Spirit...
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CITY publishes “Picking up the slack”
Last week Talker answered the CITY’s call to submit a FEEDBACK letter, hoping to encourage...
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Help make Talker even greater as the magazine expands its digital footprint
Audrey Boyce interviewing Talker. From “The love ($) you get is equal to the love ($) you...
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Saying goodbye to the weekday print edition of the Democrat and Chronicle
For reasons big and small, I finally unsubscribed to the weekday print edition of the Rochester...
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Introductions
[Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1981. Caption: Dave Kramer of Brighton concentrates on his next...
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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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The Presidential Visits Series in its entirety: James Monroe to Joseph Biden
Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, 32 have stopped in Rochester...
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Site says Brighton is best place to live in New York
Twelve Corners Memorial Park, Brighton, NY 4/5/18 [Photo: David Kramer] Recently, the 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 – 2021
Adam Bello at the 2019 Labor Day Parade. [Photo: David Kramer] SEE ALL PHOTOS 2015 – 2021...
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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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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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Bill Pruitt celebrates Talker’s sixth birthday with “Human News”
[Lux Lounge at 666 South Avenue, Photo: David Kramer, 9/20/21, see Impromptu poetry slam at Lux...
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