by Ian | Oct 30, 2009 |
Free Keene’s Ian called “Talkback” on WKBK last week to discuss radio programming. It was a down week for calls from liberty advocates. 🙁
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Please join us for our NEW weekly chat and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 11a-12p in the Free Keene Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.
by Ian | Oct 29, 2009 |
Thanks to the Equinox’s Corey Smith for this article:
Rain dampens bi-annual Free Keene festival
A steady rainfall and dipping autumn temperatures did not dampen the spirit of participants in the Free Keene Fest at Railroad Square Oct. 18.
One day after Keene’s annual Pumpkin Festival, the small gathering aimed to catch the attention of visitors still lingering in the area. Local residents set up shop underneath tents and sold handmade jewelry, baked goods, tamales and hot apple cider.
In addition, a tent with a FreeKeene.com sign attached to it had informational pamphlets and issues of the Free Keene Press available for visitors to read. The event, held once in the spring and again in the fall, is a collaborative effort.
One of the organizers and a contributor to the Free Keene Fest Web site, Mike Barskey, said to his knowledge none of the merchants or performers at Railroad Square applied for permits (more…)
by Ian | Oct 26, 2009 |
I always figured Keene was too small for Google Street View’s van to drive through, but I’m so pleased to have been wrong! Street View is now available for nearly all of Keene west of Washington St. and Main St. for whatever reason, east of those streets did not get cataloged. Maybe they’ll come back?
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by Ian | Oct 25, 2009 |
Thanks to Mike Barskey at Mail-to-Jail.com you can now read Kurt’s letters from jail. Something got messed up in their posting, resulting in them showing up back in time on the blog, so I’m going to link to the ones we have so far here. You can write to Kurt via Mail-to-Jail, and don’t forget to send along a contribution to Mail-to-Jail to buy some postage!
by Ian | Oct 24, 2009 |
Free Keene welcomes our newest blogger, lyricist and experienced activist Richard Onley. Congrats on approaching your first full year in Keene, Richard! Here’s Richard’s bio from the Bloggers page:
Richard Onley (“Sam A. Robrin”) – Richard Onley adopted the libertarian viewpoint when he threw his copy of Steve Ditko’s comic book Avenging World across the room in disgust. The ideas wouldn’t leave him alone, however, and when customers in the Comics and Comix store where he worked observed that Ditko had “gotten hold of some Ayn Rand books,” Richard did the same. A speech by Roger McBride put him on the Party path, but campaigns, ballot drives, and policy-setting didn’t seem to be advancing liberty. Three years at Laissez-Faire Books was more productive, but the client base already agreed with the ideas sold. Disenchanted, he began living a “Bilbo Baggins existence.” Like Bilbo, though, Richard couldn’t ignore encroaching forces of evil forever, which brought him to Keene in December of 2008, where his wordplay and cynicism appear to be more of a contribution to liberty’s dissemination than anything else he’s yet tried..
