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Talker of the Town might better be Talkers of the Town. Or as they say in education, “peer group work.” Instead, I call them partnerships and collaborations. I don’t like to say these posts are “mine.” Very few of them are the sole product of my sometimes overheated imagination. So we created this new space, Talker of the Town, where all are invited to join. Starting in February 2013, I wrote for three Democratic and Chronicle blogs, 'Make City Schools Better,' 'Unite Rochester,' and the 'Editorial Board.' When my tenure at the D & C ended, I wanted to continue conversations first begun there. My poetry appears in The Criterion: An International Journal in English and Rundenalia and my academic writing in War, Literature and the Arts and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. I have published numerous Guest Essays, Letters, Book Reviews and Opinion pieces in The New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Buffalo News, the Rochester Patriot, the Providence Journal, the Providence Business News, the Brown Alumni Magazine, the New London Day, the Boston Herald, the Messenger Post Newspapers, the Wedge, the Empty Closet, the CITY, Lake Affect Magazine and Brighton Connections. Over the years, I have taught at Monroe Community College, the Rochester Institute of Technology and St. Welcome to Talker of the Town! My name is David Kramer. I have a Ph.D in English and teach at Keuka College. I am a former and still active Fellow at the Nazareth College Center for Public History and a Storyteller in Residence at the SmallMatters Institute. They were kept for good luck and, given her charmed life as an actress on the Yiddish Stage in Moscow, USSR during the Revolution who in retirement ran an import shop on Main Street in Rochester, NY, the purse worked its magic. Upon her death, the purse was bulging with Roosevelt dimes and wheat pennies.Īnya never spent one of the coins. The tokens were kept in Grandma Anya’s “found money” purse.Īs Anya traversed the streets of Manhattan in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50, 60s and 70s, every time she found a coin, she placed it in the purse. So, it was with trepidation that I joined my sister Leslie and her daughter Audrey - visiting from California - for an afternoon of foosball and air hockey.įirst, we retrieved leftover Museum tokens from their last visit. At some point, the attractive Italian set was given to a recently immigrated Turkish family with young children. If we scored one goal in our two successive losses, it was charity on behalf of the gloved, non-spinners. Not so in tournaments - firmly announced by our opponents - where spinning is deemed an illegal move. Posing as an armless blue foosball figurine, Leslie Kramer at the National Museum of Play, 11/21/18 When the first ball was dropped I “spinned:” my rod completing a 360 degree rotation without touching the ball.

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