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Helping Provide Power

LightGramsJuly 28, 2022Volume 26, Number 24 The Newport (RI) Folk Festival features something new this year for its music concert: a “bike stage”. Five stationary bicycles are set up close to the stage. Fans take five-minute turns riding the bicycles, which are equipped to generate electricity as they are being pedaled. The amplifiers and speakers…

Skipping Out

LightGramsMay 20, 2021Volume 25, Number 19 Joshua Potvin did what many of have considered doing. The former Chief of Police of Fryeburg, Maine did not want to be in the February meeting of the Board of Selectmen, so he devised a scheme to dash out. He texted one of his officers to call him out…

Calling Upon … Whom?

LightGrams September 5, 2019 Volume 23, Number 29 “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” That’s a line from Shakespeare I can quickly recall. But a story I just came across challenges the idea that names don’t matter so much. In the British Isles,…

A (Golf) Match Made In Heaven?

LightGrams August 29, 2019 Volume 23, Number 28 Interest in religion has been on a sharp decline in England for the past several decades. One survey shows that only about 10% of those who identify as being Christians of any kind attend services at least once per month (it’s about 43% in the U.S.). Such…