The Rogovoy Report 11.23.22: Special holiday edition
From around the corner to around the globe...
Ordinarily The Rogovoy Report is sent out on Sunday or Monday, but this week I’m offering some extra reading for the holiday weekend. Happy Thanksgiving!
REQUIRED READING
Squawk on the Wild Side: The Return of the Wild Turkey
(New Yorker) - Rats should take notice, pigeons ponder their options: wild turkeys have returned to New England. In the early nineteen-seventies, thirty-seven birds captured in the Adirondacks were released in the Berkshires, and their descendants are now everywhere, hundreds of thousands strong, brunching at Boston’s Prudential Center, dining on Boston Common, and foraging alongside the Swan Boats that glide in the pond of Boston Public Garden. They most certainly do not make way for ducklings.
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Europe’s cities are getting more crowded — and that’s good because suburban sprawl has been an environmental disaster (MoJo)
JFK on art v. Agitprop: 'We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth' (The Marginalian)
Eastern Europe was the crucible of modern football (i.e. soccer). Now it’s a wasteland. (NYT)
Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected. (WaPo)
Laughing at Kanye doesn’t help (NYT)
Americans aren’t letting inflation interrupt their Thanksgiving (NYT)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
(Berkshire Eagle) - This is the story of the time Arlo Guthrie and his friend, Richard Robbins, were arrested for littering in Stockbridge on Thanksgiving weekend in 1965. The two friends were guest’s at Alice and Ray Brock’s home, formerly the Trinity Church and now known as The Guthrie Center, an interfaith church established in 1991 in Housatonic. This story is immortalized in a song about 18½ minutes long, and has become a staple on America's Thanksgiving playlist. “We did something really stupid 56 years ago when we were teenagers, and much to my surprise it’s still in the news every Thanksgiving,” Rick Robbins says. "I think it’s just one of those funny, crazy coincidences that you have an event that takes place on Thanksgiving, therefore it becomes associated with the holiday," Guthrie told Rolling Stone.
Thomas Cole Historic Site Breaks Ground on $1.8M Renovation Project
(ATU) CATSKILL, N.Y. - The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, home to the Hudson River School and birthplace of the American art movement, has broken ground on a $1.8 million renovation project that will launch a new comprehensive visitor center. Empire State Development announced last week the groundbreaking that will erect a new 1,800-square-foot visitor center. The new structure will serve as a multi-purpose space designed to enhance the visitor experience and attract more tourists.
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Pittsfield-bred singer-musician Matt Cusson nominated for Grammy (Berkshire Eagle)
Castle of our Skins set to make its debut at the Tanglewood Learning Institute on Sunday (B Eagle)
Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra to play Ralph Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Debussy in Hunter on Saturday (Chronogram)
NEWS AROUND THE BERKSHIRES
Founder of Berkshire Latino Festival Seeks to Create a Latino Art Center
(Al Dia) - Liliana Ortiz-Bermudez, founder of the Latino Festival of the Berkshires in Berkshire County, MA, and host of the festival for nearly 30 years, wants to build a Latino community center. Her hopes are to create the arts center so the importance of Latin-American art and what it can provide will be recognized, seeking donations so that she may make it a reality. “I would like to leave a legacy. If I die, those who are there helping me die too, and [if] others get tired, the Latino Festival will die. It will only be a memory,” Ortiz-Bermudez said. “This is the land of art. Everyone comes here for art. We should have a center for Latin American arts so we can keep our culture alive. We will leave evidence of the best that we brought in our hearts,” she continued.
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Berkshire cannabis industry watching as New York begins issuing licenses for recreational sales (WAMC)
Beloved Williams College astronomy professor Jay Pasachoff, who pursued eclipses across the globe, dies at 79 (NYT)
Berkshires ski areas went on a spending spree to refresh. Here's what that money bought (Berkshire Eagle)
Traveling this Thanksgiving? Here are AAA's expected traffic jams in Mass (B Eagle)
NEWS AROUND THE HUDSON VALLEY
Basilica Farm & Flea in Hudson Offers an Alternative Black Friday Shopping Experience
(Chronogram) HUDSON, N.Y. - If you’re looking for unique holiday gifts and want to avoid the dreaded Black Friday hellscape, here’s a great option: the Basilica Farm & Flea Holiday Market, which marks its 10th anniversary at Basilica Hudson on Sat-Sun, November 26 and 27. Billed as “part timeless flea and farmer’s market and part 21st-century craft and design fair, the event features a highly diverse group of regional vendors selling their wares alongside locally sourced, farm-fresh foods. With an emphasis on vintage, recycled, and beautifully handmade goods and locally sourced agriculture, the market will host scores of curated vendors in its over 10,000 square feet of raw and historic waterfront space.
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Hudson Public Square aka 7th St. Park gets grant funding for improvements (GoR)
Syracuse and UAlbany students killed on Route 9H in Columbia County driving home for Thanksgiving (ATU)
Incentives keep solar energy market hot for N.Y. homeowners (ATU)
Galvan delays development of 'Community Theatre' building until Hudson caves on tax breaks (Columbia Paper)