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Home Is Where the Bird Feeders Are
Jim Schatz designs works of art that help keep our feathered friends nourished A sumac red egg-shaped bird feeder is a creation of Jim Schatz. PHOTO: J SCHATZ By RALPH GARDNER JR. Updated Oct. 30,...
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A Final Bow From Ralph Gardner
For his last Urban Gardner piece, columnist reflects on his adventures and the pleasures of his craft ENLARGE PHOTO: ROB SHEPPERSON By RALPH GARDNER JR. Nov. 10, 2016 5:33 a.m. ET After more than...
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You’re receiving this email because you’ve expressed interest in my work in the past. Or you’ve been moved to correct my spelling or grammar, sometimes both. Since my final “Urban Gardner” column in...
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A Well-Crafted Fruitcake for the Holidays
By RALPH GARDNER for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (click here for audio) I’ve got a confession to make. I like fruitcake. I don’t understand why fruitcake is a punch line. You know, like the joke that...
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The Holidays
By RALPH GARDNER for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (Click here for audio) If you attend a party this time of year somebody will probably ask you, “Do you have plans for the holidays? Are you going...
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Robert Morgenthau: On Retirement and Hard Cider
By Ralph Gardner for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (12.31.16) (Click here for audio) Robert Morgenthau in June at Fishkill Farms (photo credit: Ralph Gardner) Among the perks of being an empty nester...
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Some Pig
By Ralph Gardner for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (1.7.17) (Click here for audio) Come the New Year we can’t help but look ahead to the next twelve months and wonder about the ways our lives will be...
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The New Second Avenue Subway
By Ralph Gardner for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (1.14.17) (Click here for audio) Art in the new Second Ave 72nd St station These commentaries were conceived as celebrating the pleasures of country...
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The Norman Rockwell Museum
By Ralph Gardner for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (1.21.17) (Click here for audio) A photo of the 1960 Norman Rockwell painting, “Triple Self-Portrait” – taken at the Norman Rockwell Museum Photo...
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The Hudson Women’s March and Encounters with Donald Trump
Commentary: WAMC Northeast Public Radio (aired 1.28.17) (Click here for audio) Women’s march in Hudson, NY – 1/21/17 Unless you were vacationing on another planet or living under...
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Mary Tyler Moore and Rich Conaty
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (aired 2.4.17) Click Here for Audio 4:24 Sometimes you don’t understand what a person meant to you until he or she is gone. That happened to me twice over...
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Valentine’s Candy
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (aired 2.11.17) CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO ( 4:24) I’ve got a confession to make. I buy Valentine’s candy. For myself. No, of course I’m not talking about those...
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A Walk In The Woods
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (aired 2.18.17) CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO ( 4:16) Here’s a suggestion for unsettling times: take a walk in the woods. I notice I’ve been doing a lot more of that...
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The Soul of a Cat
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio (2.24.17) Listen here Only once did a walk in the woods upstate disappoint me. It happened in the spring of 2015 shortly after my family and I returned from...
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Catching Mice
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio Listen here One of the secrets to success as a newspaper columnist, or probably a radio commentator for that matter – and no, it’s not having something to...
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A Taste of Poland
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN A nation’s museums and monuments, parks and restaurants aren’t the only things that interest me on vacations abroad. I also love visiting their...
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A Visit From a Bear
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN (4.27) I was planning to devote this commentary to snow. As I write we’re anticipating a foot or more in the Hudson Valley and a blizzard in New...
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A Hudson Wine Tasting
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN (5:07) Phil Sareil leading a wine tasting at Hudson Wine Merchants One of the more pleasant experiences I’ve had lately was a Saturday evening wine...
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Making Maple Syrup
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Ben Madey at his maple sugar house in Ghent, NY This wasn’t a good winter for maple syrup production. At least at our house. We have one tap. My wife...
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Curating My Utility Drawer
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Ralph’s utility drawer There isn’t much you can control in this world. But when you run across something you can, no matter how inconsequential, you...
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