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Month: April 2012

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Saratoga’s Gardens of Earthly Perennial Delight

Wayne Perras April 28, 2012

To quote, or maybe misappropriate, Thoreau: I have travelled extensively within the confines of Saratoga. Since those early days of mine in this town, I have explored almost every nook and alley and carriage-house lane and corner of this city...

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Music in the Air, All the Time…

Wayne Perras April 24, 2012November 8, 2017

Enough reminiscence, allow me to get back to the present tense. I hear Ray LaMontagne on WEXT this morning, singing Beg, Steal, or Borrow, and it triggers recall of his tasty set at SPAC last summer, early in the season,...

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Saratoga Startup, Part 2

Wayne Perras April 22, 2012

So as I began saying, Entertainment was my primary goal in seeking out Saratoga initially... and I've always believed there is a magnetism here that pulls people in to seek it. You can see it these days by the...

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WaynesWord2 — Startup Story on Saratoga.com

Wayne Perras April 19, 2012

First off, I came here to Saratoga Springs initially for Entertainment, then for Inspiration, followed by a Quest for Romance, and eventually, for Employment. Some of you reading this may be going in reverse order from what...

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For 4 full decades I've lived (mostly) in and around Saratoga Springs, NY after being introduced to the town via SPAC concerts while still in high school, and then getting the real native view of things from my best friend at Colgate, who grew up here & had roots on both the east side and west side of this town. He moved elsewhere (and is now an accomplished photographer in in the D.C. Metro area) but I stuck around...and saw innumerable changes take place since.

Before he left Dave and another friend of ours put a magazine together called The High Rock Review... referring not to music but to the most sacred original site in Saratoga Springs... in the extended park area of The Farmer's Market. When I was 23 and renting a big old Victorian on Woodlawn Ave with a group of friends, I crossed Broadway many times to just sit and think-- or not think--in that park. So in 1980, that's what inspired the magazine name.

Back then Saratoga was lively as ever in the summer months, but otherwise a hip, bar-filled college town that could be desolate in the off-season, like most of upstate NY... But we saw it had something that was attracting creative types as the place had a magical draw-- We were trying to celebrate what we called "latent native talent" back then, which is in ample supply now in this thriving mini-metropolis, an oasis just north of the Capital District.

This place has taken off in such a big way while I've lived and worked here, that I must record my observations on a more regular basis, so here we go...

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