by Connolly Ryan | Nov 3, 2015 | Arts, Letters from our Readers, News
On the bus to Northampton from Amherst, I was sitting across from an old man with the wrecked blue eyes of a sunken mariner. Eyes so wet and blue and seen-through as any screen-door of the Deep South ever was, that to be caught looking into them was to be trapped in...
by From Our Readers | Oct 13, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
First Head People tend to travel in the direction they are looking. It is obvious that the lady from Wilbraham who wrote the recent letter entitled “Bad Bible” is one of the multitude who sit in front of their televisions and inhale reams of anti-Christian twit...
by From Our Readers | Oct 6, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Unite community around treating addiction I read the article about community opposition to new drug/alcohol treatment centers in Greenfield and Springfield (“Not In Our Backyards” Sept. 24-30, 2015) with great interest. It’s hard to oppose a community uniting for...
by From Our Readers | Sep 29, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Kalliope Jones’ privilege Editor’s note: This comment was made online under the article “Kalliope Jones Takes it to the Web.” True, this is an important problem. You undermine the conversation, though, when you do the following: Scapegoat individuals rather than look...
by From Our Readers | Sep 22, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Jazz Festival marred by ‘loud mouths’ It was impossible not to notice that during the painstaking and brilliant jazz performances occurring Saturday afternoon on the main stage of the Northampton Jazz Festival, a constant din of beer-induced mouth-noise loomed over...