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Sandra Scott Travels: There Is Miles and Miles To See and Do On Route 20

September 26, 2014 Contributor

Route 20 is the longest road in the United States starting in Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, and ending in Newport, Oregon. It is 3,365 miles from coast to coast. Each state, working alone and in conjunction with adjoining states, is trying to promote the road to the benefit of all the towns, villages, accommodations, restaurants and tourist attractions along the way. What they need is a TV show and a song similar to the one about Route 66.

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Acoustic guitarists Julian Lage (left) and Chris Eldridge will appear in a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, in Sheldon Hall ballroom at SUNY Oswego.

Acoustic guitarists Lage, Eldridge to improvise, blend genres in concert

September 23, 2014 Contributor

Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge will improvise on their vintage guitars as they try to surprise a Sheldon Hall ballroom audience in a performance at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6, at SUNY Oswego. With the help of Lage’s and Eldridge’s 1939 Martin guitars, the musicians will explore a world of “spontaneous composition” in the free public performance presented by the SUNY Oswego music department.

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Cast Selected For Jekyll-Hyde

September 22, 2014 Contributor

Troy Pepper, director of the next Oswego Players’ next production, has selected the cast for the play “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Leading the cast in the title role will be Knate MacKenzie-Roy who finished a role in the just closed “Who’s On First?”

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Showtime again at CNY Arts Center

September 21, 2014 Contributor

“The Wizard of Oz” will be presented in December as an all-youth production by arrangement with Lifehouse Productions. Auditions for the musical will be held September 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the center’s current location, 357 State St. (use the Park Street entrance).

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Sandra Scott Travels: Schools Are Rather Similar World-Wide

September 19, 2014 Contributor

There are many places where students go to school six days a week including the school I visited near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Interestingly, they only have classes five of the days. On Thursdays they clean the school and work in the garden where they grow food that is used for their lunch. When I entered the fourth grade classroom all the students stood up. After greeting them, I said that they could be seated. My guide said, “No, they must stay standing as a sign of respect to their guests.”

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Actor and director Milton Loayza of SUNY Oswego's modern languages and literatures faculty will team with video/lighting designer Barry Steele to bring to life "magical moments of truth, horror and deliverance" in fiction writer Julio Cortázar's stories at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom.

‘Magical moments’ of Cortázar to come alive in dramatic performance

September 18, 2014 Contributor

Actor and director Milton Loayza of SUNY Oswego’s modern languages and literatures faculty will join forces with video/lighting designer Barry Steele to bring to life the stories of influential Argentine writer Julio Cortázar in a performance at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom. In “Don’t Blame Anyone” — the presentation shares the title of one of Cortázar’s short stories — Loayza and Steele will work together to show the audience Cortázar tales that Time Magazine says “can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night.”

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Sandra Scott Travels: Enjoy One Of The Finest Hotels In Oswego County – In Altmar

September 12, 2014 Contributor

John and I loved many things about Tailwater Lodge. I love old buildings that have found new life as something entirely different. Such is the case of the Altmar Elementary School. This is the third school turned hotel we have stayed at, but the only one that is not even remotely recognizable as a former school. School-to-hotel is not a quantum leap.

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Who’s On First? Set To Open

September 9, 2014 Contributor

Under the direction of Sherrie Metz, the fast-paced comedy will keep audiences laughing throughout the performances. With twists and turns in the plot, the play takes the audience members on a merry ride through a variety of situations and encounters that all lead to the final climax and happy resolution.

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Sandra Scott Travels: There’s Plenty To Do In ‘The Miracle on the Han River’

September 5, 2014 Contributor

Seoul is the bustling capital city of South Korea and an excellent gateway city to the rest of South Korea and Asia. The techie, prosperous city has been called “The Miracle on the Han River” due to its transformation from the destruction caused during the Korean War to a thriving city. These are my favorite things to do in Seoul.

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Drummer Dafnis Prieto will appear with his Latin jazz quartet Si o Si for a concert featuring his complex compositions at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23, in Hewitt Union ballroom to launch SUNY Oswego's 2014-15 Artswego Performing Arts Series.

From Cuba with rhythm: ‘Virtuosic’ drummer to bring quartet to SUNY Oswego

September 5, 2014 Contributor

Drummer Dafnis Prieto, a native of Cuba, brings his percussive virtuosity and Latin jazz So o Si Quartet to SUNY Oswego’s Hewitt Union ballroom at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23. Since his arrival in New York 15 years ago, the two-time Grammy nominee and MacArthur Fellow has gained an international following as an innovative jazz instrumentalist and composer. Prieto has released five albums and created music for dance, film and his own bands. He is best known for the high energy of his live performances.

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