The Talk of the Town Vacant Lot by William McKibben. Talk story about a community garden behind Mike Peter house, on Eagle St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Peters retired in 1976 as a car repairman for the Long Island Rail Road. He began the garden 5 years ago & won in beets & carrots at last year's citywide Harvest Fair &...

The Talk of the Town How To (In Three Parts) by William McKibben. Three-part article about how to do things, taking as examples, how to fly the Fuji blimp (part I); how to train and manage birds of prey (part II); and how to mine garnet, (part III)...(1) First you need to find some garnet. One method of locating garnet, exeplified...

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Fiction Steam Gives Way to Sail by Penelope Gilliatt. Georgia lived in Northumberland with her father, David. Her mother, Fanny, left them in 1954 to marry a diplomat in Kashmir. David had lost a leg in the Spanish Civil War. He started a do-it-yourself clavichord business with Georgia. They perfected 2 clavichords, tuned them daily & wrote...

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Fiction Disguised by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In Poland, Temerl was married to Pinchosl. She was good looking, and came from a wealthy family. Pinchosl was small and slight, and a poor Yeshiva student. In less than half a year after their marriage, he abandoned her. Jewish law does not allow a woman to remarry unless she...

A Reporter at Large I-RAJNEESHPURAM by Frances FitzGerald. REPORTER AT LARGE about a commune incorporated into the town of Rajneeshpuram, in Central Oregon, led by the Indian guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In 1981 he came to the U.S. & his followers paid 6 million dollars for Big Muddy Ranch in Wasco & Jefferson Counties, which was one of...

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Comment by Garrison Keillor. Last winter, after their wedding, writer and his wife decide to take their four teenage children on a vacation trip out West as a way of sealing the family bond. Today, a month later, they are heading south on Highway 101 through California redwoods, cruising down from Crescent City toward...

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The Current Cinema OUT THERE AND IN HERE by Pauline Kael.

Books by John Updike.

Anniversary The Talk of the Town by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about visiting Harvard to join in celebrating their 350th anniversary. Prince Charles(who is referred to as the Prince of Whales)spoke to an audience of some 17,000 in the Yard--the biggest crowd he had addressed he revealed, since he confronted forty thousand buffalo farmers in India...

Poetry His First Love Speaks by Cynthia Zarin. Do you remember, chick, my chickadee...

Poetry History by W. S. Merwin. Only I never came back...