by Vincent Panella | Nov 22, 2018 | The First Glass
[Read part 1 below — Vermont Views Magazine does not take part in partisan stances in local or national politics, but it does, from time to time, observe the state of people who vote, their knowledge and acuity, if any.]A Beto volunteer calls. “Have you been...
by Vincent Panella | Nov 21, 2018 | The First Glass
What made me go to Texas? Last spring the news filtered in that a U.S. Rep from El Paso named Robert Francis O’Rourke, nicknamed Beto, (Bet-oh) was challenging Ted Cruz for a senate seat held by Republicans since the early nineties. Cruz was considered a lock at...
by Vincent Panella | Sep 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Reviewed by Laurette Folk Lost Hearts by Vincent Panella, Apollo’s Bow, 2010, 226 p. $15.95 Review by Laurette Folk I read with Vincent Panella back in December at IAM Books in the North End of Boston and bought his book. In all truth, I was not prepared for the...
by Vincent Panella | Jul 24, 2017 | The First Glass
The house still stands, wrecked, silent, blackened and charred. Once the flames were extinguished an excavator ripped off part of the roof and flattened walls on the second floor to expose enough of the house so that the last ember could be put out. Now the second...
by Vincent Panella | Jun 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Here’s one reaction to David Rohn’s recent show of watercolors at the Mitchell-Giddings Gallery in Brattleboro, For full disclosure, David is a friend. He’s an awfully good painter whose reputation stretches far beyond the rave reviews in the local media. I wish I...
by Vincent Panella | Apr 24, 2017 | The First Glass
My grandma believed that birds were the souls of the dead. She would throw out bread soaked in water for the sparrows, grackles and stray pigeons from the nearby coops. She also believed in olive oil as a universal cure and that certain people possessed...
by Vincent Panella | Mar 6, 2017 | The First Glass
He was born in 1916 in a dirt road town off the Appian Way. His mother died in the Spanish Flu pandemic soon after. He came here at seven, grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, quit school at sixteen – it was the depression – worked at who knows what, became a city...
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