The Rogovoy Report 9.30.24
From around the corner to around the globe...
REQUIRED READING
Seth Rogovoy’s New George Harrison Book Out This Week
(WYWY) - Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison by author and cultural critic Seth Rogovoy is due out Tuesday, October 1, from Oxford University Press. Publisher’s Weekly calls Within You Without You “a boisterous celebration of George Harrison ... [Seth Rogovoy provides] astute analysis of Harrison’s musical evolution and delightful turns of phrase . . . [this] loving ode will captivate Harrison’s fans.” How did the most reluctant member of the Fab Four put his mark on all of their music? Rock critic and historian Seth Rogovoy offers a highly personal exploration of George Harrison’s essential contributions to the Beatles and the musical world in Within You Without You.
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To get what you want, try shutting up (WSJ)
Why I write my own obituary every year (NYT)
FASCIST TAKEOVER WATCH:
Trump wants to deport immigrants by ‘serial numbers’ (Forward)
Haitian immigrant group calls for arrest warrants for Trump and Vance in Ohio (The Guardian)
Donald Trump’s Mob-boss warning to American Jews (The Atlantic)
Trump's Hitlerian month, by Timothy Snyder (Thinking About...)
Antisemitism and the power of the big lie (Boston Globe)
Trump rebuked over demeaning insults of Harris; attacks calling Kamala Harris “mentally impaired” and “mentally disabled” were criticized on Sunday by Democrats and Republicans (NYT)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Elizabeth Graver: 'Searching for My Father’s Story, Finding a Tantalizing Grandfather'
(Boston Globe) by Elizabeth Graver, WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - I go looking for my grandfather, Louis Graver, who died in 1944, twenty years before I was born.... I’m looking for my grandfather in order to write about my father, in order to also write (if I dare) about myself. I won’t really know what I have to say until I say it, and if my prior experience is any indication, the road will have many twists and turns.... I’ve been missing my beloved father for fourteen long years, but now, weirdly, I also miss his father Lou, whose name, in a certain way, I bear. Did my father notice the echo? I will never know, and so I wonder, ponder, research. Write. [Editor’s note: Elizabeth Graver is a native of Williamstown, Mass., where her father, Lawrence ‘Larry’ Graver, was a much-beloved professor of English at Williams College.]
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WAM Theater presents Galileo’s Daughter (WAMC)
Three years after Daniel Pearl's death, Todd Mack threw a concert for his birthday. 20 years later, FODfest is still hosting jam sessions — nationwide (B Eagle)
Local singer Wanda Houston, documentary subject, performing one-woman show (iBerkshires)
Jamaica Kincaid reveres James Baldwin's writing — but only his nonfiction (Berkshire Eagle)
PREVIEW: Crescendo presents ‘Nature in Vivaldi’s Sound’ (Berkshire Edge)
Pink Martini headed back to Mahaiwe (B Eagle)
Report: Fight continues for pay equity for arts organizations (B Edge)
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is now featuring its fall events in dance (B Edge)
Graham Nash keeps the focus on “Now” as tour returns to Northeast (WAMC)
Art exhibitions to see this fall in the Hudson Valley (ATU)
NEWS FROM THE BERKSHIRES
To Honor Stockbridge-Munsee, Town Dedicates New Signage Bearing Mohican Word ‘Wa’thatinik’
(Berkshire Edge) STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. - Despite the rain, a crowd of several dozen gathered at the end of Park Street in Stockbridge on Thursday morning, by the footbridge that leads across to Ice Glen and Laura’s Tower, for a dedication to celebrate new signage honoring the land’s Mohican heritage. The Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans called themselves “People of the Waters that are Never Still,” and they called this place “Wa’thatinik,” meaning “the Land Beyond the Mountains.” As a result of their input, a sign bearing this word, along with a turtle, a symbol important to the tribe, will grace this Housatonic River crossing, as well as nine other locations in town as yet to be fully determined.
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Williams College again tops liberal arts college list (NEPM)
The building housing Temple Anshe Amunim in Pittsfield is up for sale, as leaders look for a smaller space to serve its dwindling Reform Jewish congregation (Berkshire Eagle)
Carr Hardware announces Pittsfield store remodel (iBerkshires)
Group intends to redress historic discrimination on Pittsfield’s West Side (B Eagle)
South Egremont road reconstruction completed (Berkshire Edge)
State awards Egremont $900K for Prospect Lake dam repair and construction costs (B Edge)
Mass. Senator Elizabeth Warren endorses Leigh Davis for state representative in 3rd Berkshire District (B Edge)
Gov. Maura Healey endorses Leigh Davis for 3rd Berkshire District state representative seat (B Edge)
NEWS FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY
Affordable, Organic Groceries Coming to Hudson Waterfront in 2026
(Chronogram) HUDSON, N.Y. - A planned collaboration between Hawthorne Valley Farm Store and Nice & Weird LLC will be bringing fresh organic groceries, bulk foods, and grocery staples to Hudson’s waterfront by late 2026, transforming the former Kaz warehouse at 14 Montgomery Street into 16,000 square feet of retail and community space. “It’s going to be a full-scale grocery shopping experience,” says Hawthorne Valley’s director of retail Jeremy Laurange, “with the center aisles, frozen foods, dairy—everything you’d expect, plus robust bulk foods and produce sections."
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Klocke Estate Distillery in Claverack fashions traditional brandy and a stylish restaurant (RI)
New group aims to rescue Winter Walk in Hudson (Trixie's List)
Boutique hotel gets green light from Hudson Historic Preservation Commission (GoR)
Teachers union president criticizes Hudson school district, administration, singling out Superintendent of Schools Juliette Pennyman (HV360)
Construction begins on staircase connecting Second Street to Cross Street in Hudson (GoR)
Ryan vs. Molinaro on immigration, vehicle emissions, Secret Service (Daily Freeman)
Democrat Paula Collins, challenging Elise Stefanik, hopes for surprise in NY-21 House race (WAMC)
‘The narrative has to change’: Local leaders seek ways to welcome migrants (ATU)
Where does upstate New York actually begin? (ATU)
Southwest Airlines to offer nonstop flights from Albany to Nashville (ATU)
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Richard Koplin
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David Rubman
Spencertown Academy Arts Center
Elisa Spungen and Rob Bildner/Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook
Julie Abraham Stone
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