Columnist Andrea Ayvazian: An enclave of nice racists ? gazettenet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettenet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rick Hart: A personal decision >Published: 7/7/2021 4:30:14 PM
The many readers who recently expressed their annoyance at the presence of panhandlers and other street people downtown are little aware of how difficult life is for people who have no home, in Northampton, the commonwealth and beyond. The pandemic has been a time of isolation and loneliness for everyone, but imagine what it must be like to have no roof over your head.
Thanks to MANNA Community Kitchen, meals are available to all who are hungry. Ask any MANNA volunteer about the people they meet and they will fill your ears with the difficulties with which the homeless have to cope.
Columnist Andrea Ayvazian: Make Northampton Kind feels like a worthy goal gazettenet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettenet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nadine Gallo: Remembering swimming pools in New York
Published: 5/25/2021 12:53:43 PM
As a swimmer from Washington Heights, New York City, I regularly swam at Highbridge pool near the East River. That pool was crowded with kids of every color. Nobody segregated the swimmers. (“Refilling the ‘pool’ of public good,” by columnist Andrea Ayvazian, May 15)
For 10 cents you could spend the day in the pool with hundreds of shades of brown and tan splashing and leaping in the water. That was 1945 and on. There was no segregation in New York City in any park or playground. That doesn’t mean we didn’t have some racism and indeed, gang fights occasionally.
My Turn: Dr. Seuss and Atlanta
In this May 4, 2017, file photo, a mural that features Theodor Seuss Geisel, left, also known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, covers part of a wall near an entrance at The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum, in Springfield. AP FILE PHOTO/STEVEN SENNE
Published: 4/3/2021 7:21:50 AM
My father spent the first five years of his life in China. I have a niece and a nephew who are half Japanese. Nothing about either of those pieces of family history seems abnormal to me although at some point each posed a problem for one or two family members. I’m also pretty much as P.C. as your average Massachusetts liberal progressive. And I grew up with Dr. Seuss.