The Behan Blog
The Year The Kennedys Came to North Creek
May 8, 2020
Robert F. Kennedy, at the time New York’s junior U.S. Senator, was on his way to speak at Johnsburg Central School the evening of May 6, 1967, leaving Garnet Hill Lodge with a chocolate sundae in one hand and a couple of brownies in the other.The Week: What Caught Our Eye
April 25, 2020
The Capital Region is belting out songs, dishing out food, hanging out rainbows, watching out for neighbors, turning out masks, and toughing this pandemic out. We pay tribute to more local healthcare heroes and to Mets announcer Colin Cosell who’s cheering up one fan at a time. And here’s a question: If you are a stuntman (or women) should you sanitize before or after punching someone in the face? It’s all in The Week: What Caught Our Eye.The Week: What Caught Our Eye
April 18, 2020
We have found the new Greatest Generation, and they are working right now in local hospitals. Fearsome warriors in face shields and scrubs, they are using every high-tech tool at their disposal to defeat a virus that mocks conventional therapies. And they are also practicing medicine’s oldest and finest traditions: kindness and mercy. Plus, we’ll meet The Ukes, learn about home bread deliveries, and ponder why it took Bob Dylan so long to make it to No. 1. It’s all in The Week: What Caught Our Eye.The Week: What Caught Our Eye
April 11, 2020
Let’s hope we never go through this again, but if we do, we’ll remember the words of Stephen Schwartz: We were changed for the better. One local hospital’s Ray of light, backwoods rescuers making masks for front-liners, the clap, clatter and songs of gratitude heard ‘round the world, bar and bistro bingo in Troy, a small village that raises giants, and “Tom Brady” is found under a bridge in Central New York. It’s all in The Week: What Caught Our Eye.The Week: What Caught Our Eye
April 4, 2020
As Bill Withers might have said, this week please lean on us. In place of handshakes and hugs, we raise our hands to cheer for local companies in the vanguard of the fight against COVID-19 and keeping people healthy, for courageous nurses, caring farmers, postal workers and delivery people; for campaigns to keep beauty alive, freelancers working, a wining cheese, a celebrity donut, and two high school choruses staging a spectacular virtual concert. To them we say: Hallelujiah! It’s all in The Week: What Caught Our Eye.The Week: What Caught Our Eye
March 28, 2020
As our world turns upside down, we take stock of beautiful places that do not change, of friends whose love and support sustains us, of people who inspire hope and optimism, and of the things in life that are truly precious. It’s all in The Week: What Caught Our Eye.OUR MISSION
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