by Pamela Newton September 15, 2021 Creative and performing artists are a curious breed. Manic energy and depressive introspection...

By Pamela Newton Aug 21, 2021 Dancing with Dragons Stage fright can be a tricky, ferocious dragon to wrestle within your life. There are...

by Pam Newton August 2021 Hitting a creative block can come at the most inconvenient times. When this dragon lowers a cold, spiny tail or...

by Pam Newton July 23, 2021 One of the hardest things to confront in the performing world is the inner dragon of self-doubt. Theater life...

by Pam Newton June 25, 2021 Growing up with artists and linguists and their powerful images and sounds has left me with a growing sense...

by Pam Newton Fiorentino "Tino" Di Grappa lived in Maynard all of his life, and he told wonderful stories of how his life unfolded in...

Note: This is a “Possible 2020 Soliloquy” for MILL TOWN Trilogy, which will be performed on June 6 and 7, 2020, at the Sanctuary in...

By Pamela Newton (part of the research for the MILL TOWN Trilogy) When I found the marriage certificate for Waino Kaupi, twenty-one years...

by Pamela Newton Ever since we moved to Maynard in September 2015, I have been drawn to the song of the Assabet River and to the enormous...

by Pam Newton 10/16/19 I live on Nipmuc land at the base of a hill.  This place was once anything but flat, rather part of a small...

By Pamela Newton 9/8/19 The initial inspiration for creating the MILL Town Trilogy began in 2015 when I first moved into a Maynard home...

Somehow August holds a humid awe for me. This lazy month reminds me of breasts and buttocks, tears, massage oil, and abstract water...

I am happy for all my friends and family members. They have bad things happen too, after all, and I just want to focus on their stories,...

by Pam Newton March 15, 2019 We humans are highly complex energy systems. And, we experience our lives in a physical body so long as we...

Sometimes I get lost in the fog at the edge of the wetlands.  I can’t drag myself back into the day world but stay to meander in the...

February 8, 2019 Pamela Newton Dreamscape Collaborative This time of year always feels unreal, even viscerally cruel, to me. Today it was...

Our interviewing team is putting joy into the winter months of 2019 by completing extra interviews for the MILL TOWN Project. We are...

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by Pam Newton Hhhhr! (Breath Sound) The interplay of violence and calm breaks at dawn with a start. Sounds of a dog fight across the...