Mark Gresham

The real problem is treating a federal board as illegitimate Mark Gresham | 2 SEP 2026 On August 29, The Atlantic published a short culture piece by Janay Kingsberry titled “The Kennedy Center Has a Problem That Courts Can’t Fix.” Its argument is straightforward: a board of “Trump loyalists” keeps making new decisions—renaming plans, shutting down for renovation—that send the John F.

Mark Gresham | 10 AUG 2026 The child pointed at the sky over the backyard and said, “Run away, Moon!” The moon did not argue. It simply flew across the sky, taking the child’s hand lifted to its luminous whiteness, as if this had been the arrangement all along. In rural America, the moon is watched. It is measured. It is given names according to the season and the phase. It is rarely ordered about by a person still small enough to be carried. Here the child issued a command and the sky obeyed.

CONCERT REVIEW: Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival July 5, 2026 “American Salute” Village Green Commons – Lewis Hall Cashiers, North Carolina – USA The American String Quartet (Peter Winograd & Laurie Carney, violins; Matthias Buchholz, viola; Wolfram Koessel, cello); Vijay Venkatesh, piano; Jasmin Arakawa, piano; Yinzi Kong, viola; William Ransom, piano. George GERSHWIN: An American in Paris (arr.