Ruminations from the Roost: Village Music – Beth Duquette and Mark Mulqueen

Beth Duquette and Mark Mulqueen have been quiet leaders of robust music scenes in Ripton, Lincoln and beyond. Steve Harris dug a little deeper to learn more about this musically motivated couple.

Steve Harris takes us up north for a 50-year reunion with some ice-cutters from Lincoln.

Steve Harris pulls back the curtain on the Allreds and their work in theater at Mount Abe.

Dive in and learn more about Robert Compton and Christine Homer from Steve Harris’ Ruminations of the Roost.

Steve Harris takes a glimpse into the lives of Janet Fredericks and Tom Verner with his monthly column “Ruminations from the Roost.”

Lincoln resident Steve Harris begins a new column exploring “what are people for?”

“All human striving revolves around the big three questions of life: Who am I, where am I going and how long have I got?”

Follow Steve and Judith Harris on their RV adventure through Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

Follow Steve and Judith Harris’ travels from their annual winter trip to the southern states.

Steve and Judith Harris discovered O’Leno State Park, 60 miles deeper into the central region of northern Florida, while on their annual winter trip south this year.

For the second year in a row, Steve and Judith Harris decided to camp on St. Augustine Beach, Fla., for the week of New Years. Their campground was a 50-year-old KOA…

Steve and Judith Harris take us on another journey with a series of episodes that follow their journey south for 2024-2025 winter adventures in an Airstream.

This episode will bring our travelogue feature to a close for 2024. Sharing our adventures with a gentle, responsive hometown audience has been rewarding for us.

Much of our effort expended during winter sojourns is seeking places unappreciated by crowds, and unfrequented by the unappreciative.

Before we leave the Gulf of Mexico and turn inland to Vermont, let’s talk about why we REALLY come here, year after year.  The undeniable draw is the magnificent, uninterrupted, ever-changing, living, interactive display combining nature’s finest primal i … (read more)