This program (14 mins.) focuses on New York State's colonial background, especially the Finger Lakes and Adirondacks

He was charming one moment, but coming out of a passing shadow Jeb can be dark and intense, aloof and judgmental in a single glance. His elusive charisma, and occasional lack of it, was instilled in his bloodline; passed down by Alsatian ancestors (Alsatian: an inhabitant of the German Alsace region, not the German shepherd dog). His forebears did in fact converse with descendants of rebellious Anabaptists who eventually forsook Menno Simons’ modest anti-Catholic revol

While an older gentleman (sans gentle) now, I think myself young and ageless. However, I am reminded on every side that I am “mature,” so to speak. Not mature in the sense that I have great wisdom and respect from my peers and community or especially from the younger generation, but “mature” in the polite (“political”) sense (that is, as the posted signs suggest: give this man a discount or reserved seat on the bus or metro). [Perhaps such socially instructed behaviors

Sunflower "Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light” Eugenio Montale Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the travellers journey is done. Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: Rise from their graves and aspire, Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. -----William Blake, Songs of Experience I was a flower child of the 1960s, a late bloomer. My generation, now