inside traffic east
happy chicken
I was a young chicken less than a year old at this time in the little girl’s life when she hadn’t yet learned to run on plump little-girl legs without tripping and falling and gasping for breath and crying…
michael van valkenburgh
Van Valkenburgh has a presence that suggests he’s never quite at rest, always in motion–even while sitting down…
leecia eve
Leecia recalls with clarity how she understood, at just seven years old, her father’s acceptance of Attica inmates’ request that he and others come to the facility to observe and negotiate…
bob the blob
I’m neither garbage nor special garbage but a puny human with human-sized desires that sometimes get expressed in stupid human ways…
poetry: a dowsing rod for alive
Jarboe joins the tradition of poets seeking correspondences between person and place, voice and inheritance…
pushing boundaries: dr. brian betts
Dr. Brian Betts found himself intrigued from an early age about what he calls “life on the other side of the stethoscope”…
the best church choir east of the mississippi
Calling attention to that thin place where heaven and earth touch or where the sacred and secular come together is what the church is called to do in every generation…
please keep on the grass
The idea that we’re not allowed to be a part of nature, that we’re not allowed to touch grass, divides us from our environments and ourselves…
between the basswoods
Long before any concrete grain elevator stood on the south shore of the Buffalo River, the land there was called Došyowëh…
the music of medicine: dr. shernan holtan
It’s been a long road for Shernan Holtan–one that leads from the cornfields of the American Midwest to the chilly climes of Minnesota and to Buffalo…
william maggio
When William C. Maggio retired in 1995 from a thirty-six-year career teaching fine art to high school students, his mission was clear…
in relief: thomas suchy’s pain medicine
A different doctor, with the kind of training and experience Suchy has, might be inclined to take their skills beyond the small communities that raised them…
medicine in motion: dr. marco davila
Dr. Marco Davila has believed for as long as he can remember that hands-on experience is the key to really, deeply, understanding anything…
accelerating momentum through partnership
What does it take for a community program to reach the next level of impact? Collaboration, respect, and flexibility…
the happy place
Of the twelve students in the fiction writing workshop it is Ana who holds herself apart from the others. From you…
transformation
As a child growing up in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, Thomas Beauford would sometimes go to the rooftop of his building and look out to where the Statue of Liberty shone in the distance…