First Person: Search for new hobby goes into uncharted territory
Joe Fusco Jr.
When you retire during a pandemic, you need to find ‘hobbies.’
One of my retired friends is learning to play guitar through You Tube lessons. Another is re-reading every book in her home-library alphabetically. Still another just stays on Facebook all day and rants politically.
I’m into Senior Grooming!
My hair is longer and curls around my ears that I pluck nightly. My feet enjoy a monthly pedicure. I strive for that permanent 5 o’clock shadow that Ben Affleck and Tom Brady model. Like 62% of men surveyed, I manscape below the belt.
Janice Harvey: Andrew Noone joins pantheon of local authors with Bathsheba Spooner
Janice Harvey
Special to Worcester Magazine
In my living a room, there’s a shelf devoted to local writers. When I was teaching English I kept this collection on display in my classroom to inspire young authors. Included are the works of Jack O’Connell, Stanley Kunitz, John Dufresne, Kevin Harvey, Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Slater, Paul Della Valle, Joe Fusco, Jr., Robert Benchley and now, Andrew Noone.
I met Andrew Noone in the third grade at Columbus Park elementary school. Instantly I was teased in the schoolyard when little girls recognized that we were both rather skinny and freckle-faced. “Andrew Noone is your boyfriend!” they sang as they danced around me. Andrew Noone never was my boyfriend, and he was not amused, though we were classmates through the 8th grade. Andrew went on to earn graduate degrees in musicology and art history as a Florence Fellow with Syracuse University, and
First Person: Remembering Folk’nA musician Mac Cole
Joe Fusco Jr.
We lost my good friend Mac Cole Sunday. I hadn’t seen him since COVID-19 hit, but we still talked on the phone occasionally. He was unique.
Mac and I were part of the original Folk’nA crew that populated Mike Duffy’s open mike at Gilrein’s on Main Street. It was an eclectic bunch: musicians, poets, puppeteers, inflatable instruments, and even a left-handed guitar player.
At the end of the open mike, Duffy would raffle off discards that the crowd would donate: scratched lottery tickets, unwound cassettes, the third cake-cutter from your second wedding, etc.
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