Open

 

Fair warning from a car parked in Amherst.

 

The Robert Frost Library at Amherst College has been irrationally closed to the public for over two years due to the covid panic. I decided to stop by the other day and check out whether anything has changed.

While the public is no longer turned away, my first impression upon entering was not positive as I was instantly confronted by an array of authoritarian mask commands. 

 However, those signs must be just a forgotten leftover from the panic, since while walking around the building I didn't see a single student wearing a mask.  However, Smith College in Northampton continues to embarrass itself with draconian requirements. 

 

Amherst author and activist Terry Franklin was at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago recently and reports that Suzanne Palmer, a Smith College System Administrator, won Best Novelette for her piece entitled Bots of the Lost Ark.

 

Meanwhile, Dr. Jay Fleitman of the Calvin Coolidge Tea Party in Northampton proudly displays his 2022 electoral choices. 

 

 

Truth-telling sticker on a table in Pulaski park. 

 Night scene in Springfield on Worthington Street. 

photo by jeff ziff

 

Springfield anti-war protest in 2004.

Beloved local radio clowns Bax & O'Brien, appearing in suits for the first time (John's occasional wearing of a cannabis tuxedo doesn't count) have been inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasting Hall of Fame.