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Crescendo Baroque Chorus Dazzles – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday and Sunday, Crescendo, under the direction of Christine Gevert, provided an unusual choral program from the Baroque era, the Saturday concert being performed at St. James Place in Great Barrington and the Sunday concert at Trinity Episcopal Church on Sunday. Countertenor Nicholas Tamagna sang on Saturday, yet he awoke with laryngitis on Saturday morning. Christine made a series of frantic phone calls and manage…Millbrook, Alabama · Millbrook Read Article

When I was Falling – The Millbrook Independent

by Neil Donelley My first thought, This can’t be happening, but it was. At the end of the fast walk I missed my footing, and in that powerless moment, I fell, face forward; couldn’t stop. * I lay there, hoping no one had seen the fall. Earlier, when I started, there was a young man in a parked car scrolling intently on his iPhone, while alongside in the passenger seat, a wolfhound stared. * Even now, the young man is still scrolling, and the wol…Millbrook, Alabama · Millbrook Read Article

Alabama inmates plan another work strike

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ELMORE (AP) — Family and advocates of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons said they want to keep a public spotlight on problems in state lockups and said inmates are planning another work stoppage to protest conditions.Elmore, Alabama · Elmore Read Article

A Confluence of Circumstance – The Millbrook Independent

Poem and photo by Neil Donnelly At the back of the house, on my route to the compost place, sudden overhead buzzing makes me look up, and there on the eaves, a bee’s nest and a swarm, now a squadron, zooming down, then a blow, a clenched fist. I’m fast indoors. Faster still, jacket off and onto the floor tumbles, a tiny, perfectly formed, once incautious, too curious, reckless, teenage wasp. It had been pursued with murderous intent and was now …Millbrook, Alabama · Millbrook Read Article

The Sherman Ensemble with Christmas Jazz – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Kent, The Sherman Ensemble was transformed into a quintet with Julia Bailen adding vocals to a sophisticated program of jazz-inspired music, featuring creative new arrangements with excerpts from newalbums by pianist Ted Rosenthal and drummer Chris Parker. The concert was dedicated to two jazz greats on their hundredth birthday, Oscar Peterson and Mel Tormé. They opened with Wal…Millbrook, Alabama · Millbrook Read Article

What’s in a name? – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney I once called my son a little pumpkin. He did not like that—being called little, knowing he was much smarter than a squash. * Pumpkins are one of the oldest known plants in the world to be domesticated, being native to North America, cultivated ten thousand years ago by native indigenous farmers. * In Wampanoag, it was called pohpukun. which the Pilgrims adapted as pumpkin. * On Thanksgiving Day, we eat pumpkin pie, enjoy it…Millbrook, Alabama · Millbrook Read Article

Forget Aircraft Carriers: The Blue Ridge-Class Is 1 of the Navy’s Most Important Warships

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Key Points and Summary – USS Blue Ridge may be the U.S. Navy’s oldest operational warship, but it remains the brain of the Seventh Fleet in the Indo-Pacific. Built as a purpose-designed command ship, it doesn’t launch jets or missiles; it hosts admirals, staff, sensors, and secure networks that tie together carriers, destroyers, submarines, and allies in real time. The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), conducts fligh…Blue Ridge · Blue Ridge Read Article

The robotic future – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney The final enterprise of sapiens? To clutter the universe with robots who garner evidence of human life, which once flourished on this planet called Earth. They will analyze our human demise. * These robots will research what we have done, but they will have no empathy for us, as they roam the universe collecting clues on what we did wrong, searching for bots on planets outside our solar system. * Robots will mine various min…Millbrook, Alabama · Millbrook Read Article

Crescendo with Nicholas Tamagna – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney For one hour at Trinity Church in Lakeville, Countertenor Nicholas Tamagna held forth with a formidable menu of excerpts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with harpsichord keyboard backing by Christine Gevert. Tamagna has performed in about thirty opera productions by George Frederic Handel, quipping that only Handel was keeping countertenors in business. One of the reasons Handel was able to compose so quickly w…Millbrook, Alabama · Millbrook Read Article

A new species – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney About five million insect species live on planet Earth, which we call our home. (One million species are identified.) * It appears that we don’t know our neighbors, who may make our lives uncomfortable because they don’t observe real estate laws. Insects challenge our sense of ownership. * A newfound longhorn beetle, discovered in Australia, is covered in white fluff and it sports unique leg variations. * Entomologists specu…Species · Millbrook Read Article