by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 15, 2007 | Commentary, Featured, HousePosts
Blog Action Day—October 15, 2007 Today, for those of you not yet in the know, is Blog Action Day. A day where tens of thousands of bloggers (over 15,800 as of today) focus the day’s post on one subject. This year’s theme? The environment. I’ve...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 14, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts, Writing
Or a misguided fear of a dangerous mind… I was intrigued (or maybe that’s incensed) recently by an essay in Newsweek about The Dangerous Book for Boys—an Amazon bestseller and a book that my nine-year-old son, since receiving it for his birthday less...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 12, 2007 | Commentary, Wanders, Writing
Where four days and three nights equal one wonderfully long vacation… Saturday morning we packed the car, put the canoe on top and headed to Lake George in the southern part of New York’s Adirondack Park. Four hours later… Wow! Waltonian Island is...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 29, 2007 | iPhone Launch
The first two people in line at the Danbury, CT store are 28 year-old Giovanni Scaringi and 22 year-old Oren Krinsky. Giovanni, who is from Orange County New York, but who is a graduate student in Bridgeport, CT, arrived at the store at around 5:00 am this morning...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 14, 2007 | Beacon Dispatch, HousePosts, Writing
Come and see it up close and personal… On Saturday Beacon artist and muralist (and my friend) Rick Price hung the mural that he’s been working on for months and which he created for the Howland Public Library in Beacon. Rick was kind enough to write an...