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Donald Antrim
Sprague-Smith
In
January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in
1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles
Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire.
Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the
fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation
up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…
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Why MacDowell NOW? Whitman, Melville, the Virus
Whitman, Melville, the Virus
Decades ago, someone said in a literature seminar I attended that while America’s founders built the edifice of American democracy it was Walt Whitman who gave America its inner meaning and created the American social bond. As expansive and Whitmanesque as this claim seems, I thought it…
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