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Local Man Passes Family Passion For Gardening Onto His Children

A prouder dad and a more enthusiastic gardener than Pete Dauphin Jr would be hard to find. His love of gardening was learned as he worked beside his father, Peter Sr. and now the son is doing his best to pass on their passion to the next generation. His daughters, 4-year-old Nora and ...

A Broad Expanse Of Tranquil Light: Recollections Of A Jamestown Childhood

“What though the radiance which was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight, though nothing can bring back the hour, of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower, we shall grieve not, rather find, strength in what remains behind,” said William Wordsworth from Intimations of ...

JCA To Present Carpe Diem String Quartet Concert April 20

It took five years, but local fans of the Carpe Diem String Quartet will have their day on April 20, when the ensemble returns to Jamestown for a local performance. The ensemble will appear at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church to give an 8 p.m. concert as part of the Jamestown Concert ...

‘Side Effects’ One-Man Play To Be Performed At The Quick Center For The Arts Saturday

OLEAN — A landmark 2015 study by the Mayo Clinic found half of physicians in America struggle with burnout. Playwright Michael Milligan spent the last couple years asking doctors around the country “why?” In his new play, Side Effects, Milligan shares the answers he received through the fictionalized account of one doctor’s struggle. “Side Effects” will make its Cattaraugus County debut Saturday at 7 p.m. in the St. Bonaventure University Quick Center for the Arts. The performance of the one-man play will be followed by a panel conversation with Gilbert Witte, M.D., local ...

Pine And Salvation At Christmas

When I was very small and young—maybe 3 or 4—I was afraid of the cold because it would wake me in the middle of the night. I think the great house groaned in the darkness, or sighed mightily, or cursed perhaps as cold settled around and through it. We had no central furnace, only space ...

Under Siege

There’s something special about big cities; more so at Christmastime. Skyscrapers and storefronts are filled with even more lights than normal, street-corner Santas are ringing their bells and pedestrians are in slightly better moods. There’s nothing that can go wrong. Unless of ...