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Justin, my son, doesn’t get anxious either. He’s a fine musician who can play for people anytime, anywhere, although I recall his first attempts to render a violin tune were accomplished out of sight and round a corner where none could look upon his face. A teenage cousin of mine was not nervous to play for others, mere moments after picking up a guitar for the first time! At a long ago family event he noisily plunked away on it, to the dismay of all those around him, and felt he might just be a natural born musician.

| Updated: May 13, 2021, 3:53 p.m. In the mid-1980s, Darius Gray, a leading Black Latter-day Saint, met Don Harwell in the parking lot of an Allied store in Murray. Because seeing another Black man in the mostly white suburbs of Salt Lake City was rare at the time, Gray strolled over to introduce himself and chat. They soon discovered both were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — a serendipitous meeting that would launch a decades-long friendship and influence generations of the church’s Black members. And one of Harwell’s grandsons is named for his friend — ...

The Wrap: Josh Berry leaves Union, farmers markets head back outside Scandinavia in Biddeford? Ja! Share When Henry Wagner was a child, his grandparents often took him to eat at Spurwink Country Kitchen, a casual restaurant at 150 Spurwink Road (Route 77) in Scarborough that has been around for 70 years. The restaurant, which is near Crescent Beach, Scarborough Beach and Two Lights State Park, was known for its “classic New England comfort food.” Wagner remembers eating corn chowder and pie – especially pie.  “Being a kid, you always remember pie,” he said. Now Wagner will be the ...

“If onion juice is good enough for monkeys, it’s good enough for me,” my Uncle Don said, smacking a palm on the table to emphasize the weight of his statement. He was outlining his plan of action . . .

An argument (and podcast) for reviving passenger rail in Colorado ski country A high-speed rail fantasy (2013 by graphic artist Alfred Twu). In doing some research for my appearance on Forrest Whitman’s On The Rail’s podcast on KHEN 106.9 FM radio in Salida, Colorado, I realized that I first started seriously writing about passenger rail service into the Colorado mountains back in the mid-aughts but that my true connection to trains, mountains, skiing and water runs much deeper. I’ll dive into all of the history in a moment, but first some breaking news on the Tennessee Pas...