Curations from the Human Jungle
[We've featured the Real Stormin' Norman Zamcheck on these pages before, but the man just keeps churning out new music. Here's what he has to say about this one. SB SM] "Just completed an album after about a year's work with Mat Kastner and gifted upright bassist cello ace, Andrew Livingston. Below is a video of... Continue Reading →
[Silverback Larry Eyre is one of our most recent featured Silverback/Bulldogs SB SM] https://silverbackdigest.com/2025/04/27/he-writes-haiku/ He Writes Haiku [How does this sound for a life? You come from the Heartland and go east to college at Yale. You leave as a Whiffenpoof. You return to the Heartland. You coach tennis for more than 40 years (Coach... Continue Reading →
[I can't identify the handsome couple featured in our header, but they sure look like they were sent over from Central Casting. Another excerpt from the autobiography, called Extra-Ordinary: A Step-by-Step Memoir, published in Silverback Digest, 2024. SB SM] https://silverbackdigest.com/2024/06/13/chapter-12-may-day-1970/ It’s 9:17 am on March 26, 2024 in San Miguel de Allende when an old... Continue Reading →
https://silverbackdigest.com/2022/05/27/bright-college-years-class-books/ [No one has been more responsible for creating a class identity than John Boak, a charter member of Bench Nation. His fingerprints are everywhere-- books, videos, beer labels, and swag. If you've followed the materials leading up to this Reunion you've gotten a double dose of Boak via the class (and "classy") emails and... Continue Reading →
[I always wanted to be President of Yale ... well, for a day or so. And then it came to pass that I received a phone call. "Hello, this is the Alumni Office at Yale. How would you like to be President for a Day?" You bet! It then was explained that Middlebury College in... Continue Reading →
It’s time to wrap this sucker up, or, as I say in my epic rap, “Autobio-graffiti,” “The kids are grown and doing fine, from here I see the finish line.” Notice the small window at right, reflecting the sunset over Gilead. It's symbolic of something or other, not sure what. No employees No Board of... Continue Reading →
For God, for Country, and For Yale, I’m living proof of a fairy tale. Gettin’ smart don’t get much cooler … Go Bulldogs! Yeah ... Boola! Boola! —From my musical Autobio-grafitti, From the 4-0-1 to the 8-0-2 I retired from both music and sports when I arrived in New Haven... Continue Reading →
So … I accepted with the left, and left Moses Brown as a memory. The summer of 1966 was my summer of emancipation. There were no tests to worry about, no sports teams to stay in training for, no college applications … I had a car (my 1960 Pontiac Catalina) and my guitar (a 1965... Continue Reading →
[Everyone knows that THE GAME is not THE EVENT that the people participating in it make it out to be. But, reality aside, it's still can be cool in its own pointy-headed, effete, nattering-nabobs-of-negativity-kinda way. In 2004, for instance, Yale pulled off a prank that has set a new standard for nuttiness in college football... Continue Reading →
The legacy of Yale? There are always memories from the Reunions. Here's from the 45th. https://youtu.be/idqfYklXuhc As president of the Yale Club of Vermont, I am occasionally asked to stand-in at ceremonial occasions for President Salovey. Here I am at the installation of the new President of Middlebury College. https://youtu.be/x_hVmpIdwCM Here Silverback Mark remembers to... Continue Reading →