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Declassified Don Cherry at Dartmouth

Posted on May 28, 2019 by markweiss86

OR, TWENTY-SIX AOA FLUTES AT DARTMOUTH Don Cherry was artist in residence at Dartmouth in 1970. I wrote something about that, years later, for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. On Don’s Blue Lake recording, he plays a wooden flute. In the … Continue reading →

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‘Whoa, whoa, oh, oh, oh’ VS ‘Wah-hoo-wah’

Posted on April 8, 2019 by markweiss86

“Whoa, whoa, oh, oh, oh” is a lyric or trope or sound made by 20-year-old Claremont, New Hampshire Christian syren Evelyn Cormier, who sang Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” just now on ABC’s “American Idol’. Meanwhile, for readers of “Plastic Alto” … Continue reading →

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Happy new year or ‘Oy vey’ yo musician and activist Si Kahn

Posted on January 4, 2019 by markweiss86

I had repressed the memory but suddenly recall his wonderful workshop how old a Dartmouth spring of my junior year Two thousand seventeen  lifetime achievement award from the folk alliance   . Maybe EarthWise productions can bring him out here. … Continue reading →

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Dramatis personae featuring minor characters

Posted on December 13, 2018 by markweiss86

This started out as a private correspondence about sundry arts topics but I thought I’d reduce it to alphabetical list, short i.d., and a link, for general use: Alden Van Buskirk, minor Dartmouth Beat Poet (d. 1961); Aleta Hayes, teacher, … Continue reading →

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Random Dartmouth ’22, copyright The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1769/1817

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

  edit to add: “Hello, Mark Weiss? This is Dartmouth College calling. We are very sorry to have to bother you, but we will be needing to have you return your diploma, even after 32 years in that our sources … Continue reading →

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Martin Kryska at Dartmouth ski team banquet, circa 1986

Posted on November 29, 2018 by markweiss86

I wrote about Martin Kryska(1964-1992) and posted an eerie screen capture from someone’s youtube about a cross country race in Colorado 30 years ago. Martin was one of 14 Palo Altans in my Dartmouth class, 1986 (two from Gunn, seven … Continue reading →

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I spoke with Dartmouth sports legend Shaun Teevens ‘82 today in reaction to an alumni magazine cover story about his brother Buddy, which seemed lacking

Posted on September 21, 2018 by markweiss86

Brad Parks’ article missed this basic point: (from Big Green sports web page) The name Teevens is intertwined through Dartmouth athletic history. Buddy’s father, the late Eugene F. Teevens II ‘52, was a hockey letterwinner. His younger brother, Shaun ‘82, … Continue reading →

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3-d doings w Liz Babb Tri Delt

Posted on September 6, 2018 by markweiss86

Long story. Check Bach (as compared to Hung Gary, but I digress) Dear John: Well not that I expect that you guys ever read my rants and Babel but this is almost worth flying out for in that a, I … Continue reading →

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Three random Dartmouth alums in conspiracy to sell beer at council meetings

Posted on August 27, 2018 by markweiss86

Heubach ‘71, Gordon ‘76 and Weiss ‘86 two Kiwanis and “a son of a Gunn for beer” at Palo Alto crafts fair.

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20th anniversary of Dartmouth scholar athlete, but not a playboy

Posted on August 16, 2018 by markweiss86

Librarian and former St. Francis athlete Dave Sigua helped me research an item that magically popped into my head earlier today (it started with me returning a book about Lefty O’Doul and commenting that Paly grad Joc Pedersen of the … Continue reading →

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