BROMBERG IN IRVINGTON
Accompanied by our friends Cathy and Tim and Susan And Greg, Ginny and I saw the wonderful David Bromberg quintet last night at the Irvington Town Hall. His voals were strong and supple, and his playing was supple. Great show!
Virginia Jackson
OLANA
After spending the night in Kingston, we went north to see Olana, the great estate and grand house built by the great painter of the Hudson School Frederick Church. The home is spectacular, not in the way of millionaire opulence, but artistic vision. Visually exciting building, perfect landscape. What God would have done if he …
WOODSTOCK NY, JUNE 8th, 10:45 PM
Saw my favorites Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams at the Colony Hotel in Woodstock, with Ginny and Greg and Susan Schmidt.
PORTUGAL DAY ONE: TORRES VEDRAS
After bolting several scores of kilometers in the wrong direction, Jamie and Ginny (Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis) begin a long, bickery, endlessly comic trek over the many hills and through the valleys of western Portugal. Proficient non-speakers of Portuguese, we somehow blunder their way to Dolce, their hotel in Torres Vedras, which turns out to …
FORTY YEARS AND STILL GOING STRONG!
Last Saturday Ginny and I marked (almost) forty years of wedded bliss with our friends and loved ones at Trattoria 160 in Pleasantville. Front row: Dave Jensen, Ginny, me, Cara Malanowski, Molly Malanowski. Top row: Paul Lindstrom, Anne Lindstrom, Cathy Gallagher, Tim Hart, Susan Schmidt, Greg Schmidt and Shawn Kelly.
WOLF HALL WEEKEND
Neither Ginny nor I are prone to tout our own abilities, but there are some things we can do, and that’s all there is to it. As it happens, one of them is sitting. Like Will Sonnet, the old TV character played by Walter Brennan put it. “No brag, just fact.” Not that we won’t pee …