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Christopher Shaw’s “The Power Line” is a complex novel set mostly in the Adirondacks during and soon after the Prohibition years. Lonnie Monroe and Francois Germaine work in the woods for Paul Smith, bringing electricity to his hotel. They are also bootleggers, transporting liquor from Canada to upstate New York. In part one of “Power Line,” Monroe and Germaine come alive through the work of another fictional character, Abel St. Martin. This is Shaw’s frame for the tale, the story within the story: St. Martin sat with Monroe in the Trap Dyke tavern in Lake Aurora in 1983, interviewing and tape-recording the old man’s story. It’s a heck of a story, preserved in St. Martin’s transcripts that are discovered later by the narrator/editor. It has notorious gangsters like Dutch Schultz and Legs Diamond, includes a thrilling trip to Montreal, chilling descriptions of moving contraband through the frozen Adirondacks, and insights into the tuberculosis
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While many bands have been on pause during the last year, The Musicians of Ma’alwyck has found a way to keep playing, even recording a new album along the way.
“We sort of cobbled together a way of coping with it even though we can’t have in-person audiences,” said Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, director, and violinist.
On Friday, the Scotia-based group will release “Hyde Hall and the Return of the Silver Goddess: Operatic Brilliance of Auber, Bellini, Meyerbeer & Rossini from the Drawing Room” an album recorded at, and in part inspired by, the sprawling Cooperstown estate.
Making trips to New York has always brought about stirring emotions. You just cannot wait to get there, Manhattan being one of the most electrifying places there is. London, Paris and Rome each has its own uniqueness, but “the City” is unsurpassed when it comes to getting a buzz when you walk down the street.
An annual trip in December, until COVID-19 hit, was on my calendar since the mid-70s. There is much to explore from museums (especially the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Madison Square Garden, the overall sports scene and the countless restaurants, from the off-the-beaten-path neighborhood diners to those that make the headlines.
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