Yellow Springs News Blogs Section :: Page 25

• BLOG— Vote! Vote! Vote!

  By Audrey HackettNovember 3, 2015

  

  The first time I headed to the polls, I was six. It was 1980, a watershed year in national politics, and my elementary school held a mock-contest among the three candidates.

• BLOG-All Hallowed Eve

  By Amy MagnusNovember 1, 2015

  

  Our children are vested in All Hallowed Eve…all amazement, all reverence…all in the name of very good fun.

• BLOG — Book round-up, part 1

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 28, 2015

  

  “McMafia offers a startling look at the rise of organized crime, specifically in relation to the fall of the USSR and the rise of globalization…Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science is an exhaustive scientific look at Sasquatch and what truths may be behind its purported existence…Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend is book one of a subtle, jarring, beautiful, and difficult series that chronicles a friendship in 1950s Naples.”

• BLOG— Alive in Bechtlandia

  By Audrey HackettOctober 27, 2015

  

  Finally, hunched over in supplication, I practically clawed at the next Docker-clad salesperson I saw and got the beautiful specificity of “aisle nine.” At that moment, no words in the English language were more splendid. Aisle nine. Possibly the world’s shortest, most perfect poem.

• BLOG — Foolish mortals

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 26, 2015

  

  The air is cooling, plants begin to wither and fade and more and more of the day is taken up by darkness. Halloween approaches.

• BLOG-Once More Around the Block

  By Amy MagnusOctober 25, 2015

  

  The Yellow Springs Art Studio Tour and Sale had its fifteenth and final run this past weekend. I made sure to run the circuit and enjoy its many surprises.

• BLOG — Flushed: the Fire Hydrant Story

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 22, 2015

  

  “It seems like something is amiss when a hydrant is open because they are characters on the edge of the street, stolid chunks of metal that are part of a city’s impenetrable infrastructure..but opening hydrants is a routine part of city maintenance.”

• BLOG— Leaf-fall morning

  By Audrey HackettOctober 20, 2015

  

  The world is always on the verge of being something else. Call it the temple/missile effect. I think the world’s drawn double, like an optical illusion.

• BLOG-Mile Mark on the Little Miami Scenic Trail

  By Amy MagnusOctober 19, 2015

  

  Here in Yellow Springs in the 1980s, local residences saw a railway that could be converted to a community asset and connector. Today, the Rail to Trails Conservatory sees a pathway to resurface our maps with the stuff of enduring legacies.

• BLOG— Street Fairy magic

  By Audrey HackettOctober 13, 2015

  

  Ahead in the dimness, I heard bells. A belly dancer was jingling my way, still costumed and ringing from wrist to ankle. She smiled as she passed, enjoying the sleigh-bell sound of her own trot, I think.