Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Bacon Fest – Easton’s biggest festival (73,700 attendees in 2023) is coming Nov. 2-3, 2024. To promote, the city has Bacon Fest t-shirt wearing scarecrows sitting on benches around downtown. Chip met his first scarecrow today … and he didn’t like it. Chip is an 11-month-old Seeing Eye puppy my family is raising (our 7th) … Read more
Many years ago, at the dawn of the podcasting era, my friend Mur Laffery and I were podcasters. We were also writers, me mostly non-fiction, Mur fiction (well, actually, we both wrote non-fiction, but Mur wrote – and podcast – a lot more fiction than I did). She’s written a lot of fiction since then, and I’m … Read more
Our Seeing Eye Puppy Raising Club held its annual puppy night at the IronPigs in tonight. A small host of puppies (and their human friends) saw our local AAA minor league team take on the Rochester Redwings. The ‘Pigs won, 4-2, thanks to a walk off home run in the bottom of the 10th.
Dragons of Deceit sees legendary Dragonlance authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to their creation. This time, the story focuses on Destina, a young noble woman whose father died in the War of the Lance. Not one to let a little thing like death stop her, Destina seeks to travel back in time to prevent her … Read more
The latest book in the Revelation Space series finds humanity’s galactic civilization all but wiped out by the life-destroying (and alien) wolves.
I enjoyed the world building – and world destroying – in Brian Staveley’s Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, in which alien gods walk the earth, an Empire struggles to survive against an ancient conspiracy, and the Kettral – elite, giant-bird riding warriors – try to stay alive through it all. This book picks up five … Read more
My family and I started raising Seeing Eye puppies in 2014. Over the last seven years, we raised four puppies, getting them when they’re seven weeks old, training them in basic obedience and socializing them in the larger world, and then sending them back to the Seeing Eye for advanced training when they’re 16-18 months … Read more