The Bard?s Birthday Bash
This summer’s keynote Shakespeare is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was the company’s very first production, in 1978, when Simotes himself played Puck. It’s a big, brash staging with an audacious concept and a large cast. But most of the...
Between the Lines: A Gun Owner?s Resentment
I wish I’d said something like, “You can have my hundred bucks when you take it from my cold, dead hands.” I know I’d have gotten a laugh. Instead, I asked the police officer if he’d take a check. I was sitting in the police station in...From Our Readers
Baker: More of the Same Regarding Tom Vannah’s recent column about Charlie Baker (“A Republican to the Rescue,” Aug. 14): how about Don Berwick to the rescue? Why do media outlets act as if Democratic candidate Don Berwick doesn’t exist?...
From Snowden to the Pentagon Papers
Jason Burns, a history teacher at Hopkins Academy in Hadley for nine years, says it’s becoming more difficult to get students interested in the workings of the American government, but there is hope. Seven years ago, Burns said in a recent interview, Hopkins...E-Edition
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