Is Westchester a “bedroom community”? I struggled with this question when I first came to Westchester from Boston some twenty years ago. Naysayers told me I was coming to a bedroom community. Obviously, a bedroom community is where you sleep…that’s all. What would I do at night or on weekends? The search committee at ArtsWestchester, […]
Like Ed Koch, I frequently ask the question, “How’re we doing?” Mine is not a personal question, not quite a global one, but more or less a national one. My yardstick is more moral than monetary. I tend to fall back on President Kennedy’s standard that, “This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.” […]
When people ask where I’m from, I most often say, “I’m just a kid from the Rockaway’s.” This used to evoke a querulous “Where?” But no longer. Unfortunately, the Rockaway’s are recently famous, but not for the charm and fun I knew riding my bike on the boardwalk on a brisk winter’s day from Beach […]
Beauty, we are told, is in the eye of the beholder. So for some beauty is a sunset. For others, it’s a sports car or a diamond. For Robert Wiener, Chairman of Maxx Properties and ArtsWestchester board member, beauty is a geode. For more than 40 years, Wiener has been collecting geodes, some 2,000 of […]
Years ago, when I was a kid, I received a gift of a handmade silk handkerchief case with my name hand stitched on it. At the time, I was disappointed that it wasn’t something store bought. But, truth be told, I remember that gift more vividly than any other I ever received. Funny the way […]
Frankenstorm Sandy came barreling into Westchester, very slow at first, but gaining velocity as it grew. Watching 40 and 50 foot high trees doing a ballet number behind my house was culturally beautiful, yet realistically scary. Any one of them at any minute could snap. Two actually did…one uprooted, the other was felled, missing a […]
Kathryn Wasserman Davis started painting landscapes when she was 90 years old. Now 105, she has become a prolific chronicler of the Hudson River. In a short film about her, Kathryn Davis: Painting of a Life, she is quoted as saying: “I look at the blank canvas and think what in heavens am I going […]
Photographs store memories, and we can’t get enough of those. There’s something so sweet about pouring over family albums, rediscovering the past and sharing stories of “remember when?” That was my feeling wandering the current exhibition, Celebrities: We Remember Them Well, at ArtsWestchester. Seeing Lyndon Baines Johnson on horseback…he appears somewhat regal and audacious. This […]
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