Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Got a couple of nice collaborations on tonight’s show – featuring Roy Orbison with k.d. lang, and Tina Turner with the British…
Read MoreOn my recent kick of photographing locations in Green Island that were used as postcards so long ago, I found a postcard of an old church that once existed in the Town and Village. Here’s the postcard. All I know is that this postcard is of the First Presbyterian Church in Green Island. I don’t…
Read MoreEarlier this year, the Reading Rebels came to Albany and played the Albany Patroons in a hard-fought battle. Albany had a nearly insurmountable 20-point lead; but the Rebels actually clawed their way back and won the game on a last-second shot. And I remember the Reading fans who came to the Armory. They were boasting…
Read MoreEleven years ago, I created a photograph called Black Starlight, where I photographed the sun as it rose over the Hudson River. I shot the sun in 15-minute intervals, and ended up with this picture – and a blog post – for my troubles. The photo was okay – it didn’t win any competitions or…
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I have had a tremendous amount of fun with finding old postcards from the Town and Village of Green Island, and then trying to superimpose those old images onto the way the area looks today. Last year, my shot of the old McGowan Fire Hose building – now an apartment complex – took an Honorable…
Read MoreThere is an old “dad joke” that goes something like this. “How many animals can jump higher than a house?” Well, the answer is – “All of them, houses can’t jump.” There is another old “dad joke,” about the shock jock radio DJ who said if he received $5,000 for a charity fundraiser, he would…
Read MoreGood morning, my fantastic blog readers. Good to see you again. Hope you’ve got fun Memorial Day weekend plans. And hopefully those plans include checking out the blogs and photos and ideas from the great people who populate my personal blogroll. Every Satuday I take one step back from my blog and showcase what they…
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The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. We’re playing chess on the show tonight, as all the songs either reference the game of chess, or use chess as lyrics…
Read MoreIn gambling parlance, “prop bets” are wagers that go outside the norm of standard peri-mutuel wagering. The Super Bowl is full of these “prop bets” – everything from “Will the National Anthem performance run over or under 90 seconds?” Or, “Will a field goal or extra point kick hit the uprights?” (Spoiler alert – that…
Read MoreWanna see something cool? Sure you do. From 1933 to 1988, the Ford Motor Company operated a radiator manufacturing plant in the Town and Village of Green Island, New York. Every Ford vehicle manufactured during that time, from the Mustang to the Edsel, from the Lincoln Continental to the Mercury Cougar, contained a radiator that…
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