In the “It’s About Time” department: Summer residents Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller have received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the ceremony were Ben and Amy Stiller.
Islander Jamie Howarth - sounding particularly erudite, confident, and low key - was on All Things Considered yesterday. Here’s the link to listen to the entire interview, and here’s their description.
Pop Music: Using Digital Tools to Repair Analog Audio
Robert Siegel talks to Jamie Howarth about the next step in audio restoration: ridding analog-era sound of its inevitable speed variations by writing software that virtually recreates the original device on which a recording was made from the existing tape.The sound is then digitally fed back through that machine to correct the errors due to azimuth, capstan bumps, tension in reels, etc. To say the least, it’s a complex algorithm.
Described by the program as “among the best writers of their generation”, summer resident David Halberstam appeared on CBS Sunday Morning on January 7, along with Gay Talese and A.E. Hutchner, taped at Elaine’s in Manhattan. David received the Pulitzer in 1964 for reporting on Vietnam. Discussing how memory changes over time, David said: “You adjust memory as you get older to make life bearable . . . Memory releases you, if you’re lucky, and you tend to remember the better times.” On what he remembers the most: “The camaraderie that got them through the turbulence.”
Frequent summer visitor Massachusetts Senator Therese Murray appears to have the votes to become the next Senate President should Robert Travaglini leave the Senate to take a job in the private sector, according to a recent article in the Boston Globe.
Astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit will turn 100 years old on March 12, probably the oldest living astronomer in the world. Dorrit was the summer director of and teacher at the Maria Mitchell Observatory from 1957 to 1978. She is now the senior research astronomer emeritus at Yale University.
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