by Jason Smith | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
The Academy family recently lost long-serving volunteer archivist Jerry Marra. Jerry passed away unexpectedly on March 20, 2024. He was 68 years old. Born in Freeport, New York, Jerry was a hard-working student and standout athlete who set high school records in...
by Erika Monroe-Kane | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
I love how taking a moment to literally smell the flowers can be a simple joy, an existential experience—a way to boost your brain chemistry. I find it interesting and validating to learn how taking a moment to breathe is backed by science as a way not just to shift...
by Brennan Nardi | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
It’s the time of year when I knew I would really miss Wisconsin. I moved away last August, acknowledging the fact that summers in Virginia would be a lot hotter, and easy access to the rich cultural life of music, ethnic, and arts festivals, food trucks, and outdoor...
by Jessica Becker | Apr 19, 2024 | Magazine Article
“The land set me dreaming, summoning memories of my other soulscapes and psychogeographies, layering them over one another in a palimpsest, many times and places present within me at once.” This line offers both description and explanation of Alison Townsend’s recent...
by Martin Andrew | Apr 19, 2024 | Magazine Article
Imagine living everyday of your childhood in a place where today’s Environmental Protection Agency would have declared the air quality “hazardous,” coding it in the dark red color of deoxygenated blood on its air pollution maps. That world in which Catherine Young...
by Emily Bowles | Apr 19, 2024 | Magazine Article
life isas if Elizabeth Bishop wrote it,and the poem is on repeat repeat repeat: loss, a violent form.loss, of violence formed.loss, a violation of form / meaning form meaning brings(and grief knows no form). This is not a villanelle,but I am still losing keys,...
