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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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Our 4th birthday and Bill Pruitt’s “Happy Birthday Talker!”
Over the last four years, Bill Pruitt has delighted and challenged us with prose, poetry and story...
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Eugene Kramer: August 14th, 1929 to June 30th, 2019
Eugene Kramer For years, Talker readers have enjoyed Eugene Kramer’s commentary on jazz,...
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Leslie pines for her shrines
David (left) and Leslie Kramer, 31 Ledgewood Road, Kingston, Rhode Island, 1994 [Photo: Shrine...
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Why I am rooting for the Patriots
[UPDATES: see If the Patriots win the Super Bowl, credit Talker and Returning to the fold: better...
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“The love ($) you get is equal to the love ($) you give” — adapted from John Lennon
Remember the Eddie Meath Penny Fund? Up to the mid-nineties, the fund — founded by famed...
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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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Thanks, Anonymous Donor!
Recently — to mixed success — we had a fundraising drive. For those who wanted...
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Farewell, RochesterSubway.com! And thanks for your labor of love.
From Rochester Subway Today — belatedly — I learned that the blog Rochester Subway has...
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Talker’s Foreign Correspondent sends donation home
In Help Talker fill its empty hat and Talker’s experiment is an “incomplete...
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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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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 – 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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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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