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Howard Lyon Exhibit

Arnie Fenner

Howard Lyon's new solo exhibition of oil paintings, "Garden of the Gods," is in it's final stretch at the wonderful Haven Gallery in Long Island, New York. Of the show Howard says, "This exhibit of paintings represents a lifelong interest in mythologies and beauty. My goal, through the paintings, is to describe or capture a moment of what it means to be human and experience this world, which was often the purpose of a myth.…

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Gha-Gha-Gha-Ghosts!

Arnie Fenner

October 6, 2025 - October is the season of things that go bump in the night so it's fair to say that this is something of a companion to Greg Ruth's post last Friday on the subject of "Ghosts." Like many, I grew up loving ghost stories and monster movies. My dad used to tell us about his older brother, Price, who encountered the spirit of someone that had been killed by a train near their farmhouse; instead of running with the other boys, Price stood on the railroad tracks and threw rocks at the apparation until it disappeared. (He was braver than I would have been.) And, naturally, whenever I went on camping trips with the scouts we'd sit around the campfire at night and try to scare each other with yarns about phantom hitchikers or a spook…

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