Over the winter, I started talking to Grace about running a 5K, since we had a good time in the shorter kids run in Alaska last year and she has talked a number of times about running in gym class. Today was the day, and I think we picked a good one. A big race, […]

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Voluntown is one of those names that sticks in your mind once you’ve seen it once. I imagined it was founded by volunteers, and people with an affinity for playing that game where you smush two words together to make a new one. An early morning race in an elusive town was a good way […]

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In part as a matter of convenience for FIAF Congress attendees, the third Nitrate Picture Show was scheduled right on the heels of FIAF L.A., so after a very brief return to New Haven, allowing enough time to surprise the girls and take Lucy to school, I headed to Rochester. Nothing like a six hour […]

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For the first time in more than 20 years, the Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives retuned to the U.S., co-hosted in Los Angeles by the Academy Film Archive and at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. After Macedonia, Sydney and Canberra, and Bologna, the location seemed a bit pedestrian to many in […]

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