May Stevens was born in 1924 and, at the age of 94, lives in New Mexico. She has been, for most of her life, an artist. For the last seven decades, she’s been a political artist. I don’t know if she still creates art for public viewing. I hope so but that may be an […]
John Garvey
Remembering David McReynolds
A friend who spent many years in the Catholic Worker-inspired anti-war movement sent me an email about the death of David McReynolds and a link to a collection of photos taken by McReynolds throughout his adult life. One set of photos is from Ocean Park, California in 1947. The photos are accompanied by what I […]
The Peril of Voting and the Promise of Action
It may well be that no outrage yet carried out under the Trump regime has so galvanized popular disgust and opposition as the decision to implement a policy of separating children from parents when they arrive at the Mexican-US border. Although the news reports from the detention centers are not as revealing as they could be […]
Larry Kirwan on the magic of seeing Bob Dylan live for the first time
I might never have become a musician if I hadn’t heard Like A Rolling Stone. That groundbreaking single sent me helter-skeltering out of womb-like Wexford and into the maelstrom of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. I never met Dylan, though we briefly shared the same manager. However, one hungover snowy morning in Tribeca I overheard his […]