Last night was the kind of Saturday night I want 52 weeks a year. Sometimes that all important night just creeps up on you, and without plans you end up doing nothing fun. If somebody were to ask me how I’d like to spend Saturday night, last night is my […]
I ventured out into the sleet and chill to rally fellow business people to join our nascent Deerfield Attractions website, and so far there’s lots of enthusiasm for the plan. It makes so much sense, after all, to try and capture tourist visits using a website, and it didn’t hurt […]
It sometimes boggles my mind how much happens in this little office, everything is happening in marvelous waves. We’ve been in touch with another larger travel website about a new partnership, developing a whole new suite of pages with quality content. It’s going to be a great new way to […]
Ad agencies are coming up with rich sources of quality content and ideas…and Quizno Subs is getting sued by Subway over their agency’s latest idea…allow users to submit videos attacking their competitor’s sandwiches. I laughed out loud when I read the topics of some of the 115 videos sent in […]
The cafe sponsored a get-together for Chamber of Commerce members up at Hope and Olive, a very hip and cool new restaurant that is putting Greenfield on the culinary map. One of their owners, Jim Zaccaro, showed me his selection…more than 30 bottles of wine available by the glass. I […]
It’s a glorious Sunday at the cafe, many people coming and going. I had a chance to read the Republican and found a story close to my heart. It was about free newspapers, and quoted readers in Baltimore MD as having to fight to stop a free daily from landing […]
I’m just back from a virtoustic show at the Iron Horse by Dennis Brennan. He’s a clear singer, poignant writer, and tender ennuciator of lovely songs that he played tonight at the Northampton theater stage. It was a celebration of the guitar, a championing of the instrument, so many fantastically […]
Yesterday at the cafe, I picked up the Recorder and found a lovely tribute written by Gary Sanderson to a ‘hilltown squire’ whom he had the pleasure of spending some time with on a ride over country roads in his pick-up earlier in January. Sanderson thought it was an abandoned […]
I woke up this morning and got a nice surprise. Old Joe my webmaster can still delight and amaze, while at the same time managing to make me almost pull out the few hairs left on the top of my head. Last night I spoke before the Deerfield Selectboard, talking […]
I remember so well that Saturday afternoon when our town offered flu shots for the public. I even put up the notice on the cafe bulletin board, vowing to get the shot myself to avoid getting sick this winter. Then I looked up at the clock that day and saw […]
I remember a spirited debate with Shoul once when I suggested that press IDs, which were once issued to reporters and photographers, were no longer neccessary. I told him that I thought people used business cards now, and that the press card thing was a throw-back, an old and gone […]
Today while all of New England is gathered to watch our beloved Patriots try and make it 17-0, I will be taken away from the game for a phone call. It will be Kevin and Sue McCarthy on the line, calling from their Travel Planners Show in St. Louis. The […]