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Cool idea: Visit the Antique Ice Tool Museum

By Steven Brodsky

… Photographed at the Antique Ice Tool Museum:

Photo by Steven Brodsky

Photo by Steven Brodsky

Photo by Steven Brodsky

Photo by Steven Brodsky

Photo by Steven Brodsky

Visit Antique Ice Tool Museum – West Chester PA for information about this extraordinary museum.

Posted 4-22-24

It’s pleasurable 

By Steven Brodsky

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… to behold black-eyed Susans.

Posted 4-19-24

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that the ‘Earth laughs in flowers’

By Steven Brodsky

… in his poem “Hamatreya”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52341/hamatreya.

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Spring is a great season to hear that “laughter” (and giggles).

Posted 4-14-24

Attention parents: The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is now accepting reservations for the Museum’s popular Barons & Builders summer day camps

By Steven Brodsky

… From a Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania news release that was issued today, April 2, 2024: “Barons & Builders summer day campers develop new skills, make friends and have fun when they experience the Museum’s historic railroad equipment on special, behind-the-scenes guided tours, inside and outside the Museum, including the restoration shop and train yard. They also will visit the neighboring ChooChoo Barn, take a ride on the Strasburg Rail Road, build a model train car with a Lionel boxcar kit and meet special guests.”

Visit Barons-Builders-Summer-Day-Camps-2024-Flyer-1.pdf (rrmuseumpa.org) for additional information.

Posted 4-2-24

A ‘secret belief in perpetual spring’

By Steven Brodsky

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… may arise when spending time in gardens, and via engaging with Amy Gerstler’s poem “In Perpetual Spring.”

 In Perpetual Spring by Amy Gerstler | Poetry Foundation

The magic of gardens.

The magic of the poem.

Posted 3-22-24

Won’t be long till they’re back in vacation towns

By Steven Brodsky

… at the shore, the mountains, and elsewhere; spring begins on March 19, 2024.

What to do? “Spread the word around” and enjoy Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town”!:

Posted 3-13-24

‘Like a poison red berry that clings to the mind’

By Steven Brodsky

… is the memory besetting the character in this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rz4GIohkN8&ab_channel=BobWoodruff.

Recalled the song yesterday when these poisonous red berries came into view:

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The song reminds me of someone that I had a relationship with years ago, though “rarely if ever do I think about her no more.”

Posted 9-19-23

This recording makes most of us want to shout

By Steven Brodsky

…  and/or sing when we hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPVf01jXL7M&ab_channel=TheIsleyBrothersVEVO (as people have wanted to do ever since it was released in August of 1959, 64 Augusts ago).

Posted 8-5-23

‘Through the too many miles and the too little smiles’

By Steven Brodsky

… many of us very much remember Harry Chapin.

Today is the 42nd anniversary of Harry Chapin’s passing away. An accident on the Long Island Expressway took his life on July 16, 1981.

Posted 7-16-23

Steven Brodsky hosted a radio show for 3 and a half years. The show focused on coverage of entertainment, the arts, and all manner of culture. He is widely known for his many live on air interviews with guests such as: Rodney Crowell, Charlie Louvin, Richie Havens, Eric Whitacre (composer, conductor), Solomon Burke, Janis Ian, Percy Sledge, Billy Joe Shaver, Jack LaLanne, Gene Shay, Bruce Morrow “Cousin Brucie,” Jerome “Little Anthony” Gourdine, Pat Cooper, Jett Williams (daughter of Hank Williams), Steve Forbert, Chris Smither, Lukas Nelson, Dr. Temple Grandin, Dan Fante, Harold Camping (Harold Camping was the radio broadcaster and Bible teacher who famously proclaimed that Judgment Day and the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011. Harold Camping passed away on December 15, 2013.), Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, curators, historians, scientists, and newsmakers. He welcomes email.