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Deerfield really feels like we’ve taken a turn into a new chapter.  For so long, the symbol of our downtown has been the tired old building that once housed Franklin County’s Cable TV channels, which is now for rent.  We’ve had a lot of empty stores and sad “now leasing”signs.  […]

  It was the perfect evening, still in the 80s, but cooling off, as we headed down a dusty farm road to a big tent you could see in the distance.  The occasion was a customer and vendor appreciation dinner at Atlas Farm, the farm store where we buy lots […]

Denver is an inspiring city, the biggest metropolis for 500 miles around the vast American West.  I just spent five days exploring and enjoying Denver and the surrounding countryside, and I came away once again, impressed with how vibrant the place is. Last Sunday I joined a group of travel […]

Travel publishing and the demise of travel magazines and newspaper travel sections is a topic near and dear to my heart. I have witnessed it, and last month out in San Francisco, I got to speaking with Spud Hilton, the travel editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.  Hilton was interviewed […]

I’m done driving for Uber. Why? Because it comes down not making enough money for all of the efforts, and the fact that when you get a long fare somewhere like Bradley, you usually don’t have the same long fare returning north…so you spend your own gas in an empty […]

Extravaganja has been around for 27 years. It started on the Amherst Town Common, and two years ago, they outgrew the space and now it’s held every April 20, or so, at the Tri-County Fairgrounds. I had never been to the fest before, so yesterday my curiosity got the best of […]

I can’t resist a band with horns. Cool, funky horns, and old-school sounds, that’s the Skatalites, the original Jamaican pioneers of ska music, which eventually became reggae. It’s not that often you can see a legendary band like this, and in the intimate confines of Hawks and Reed, it’s especially […]