Articles written by Anya Laurence

There are many motels in The Berkshires, but the owners of Briarcliff Motel in Great Barrington go the extra mile to ensure customer comfort.

Nov 9, 2011 - Anya Laurence

Barista's is a great place to go for fire-roasted coffee, yummy pastries and lunches. All baking is done on the premises, using only the finest ingredients.

Feb 11, 2011 - Anya Laurence

Health, exercise and fitness are the main topics of The Buff Mom, Leslie Gordon's business, which combines boot camp training and telephone life coaching.

Feb 4, 2011 - Anya Laurence

Tracey Milne is an accredited psychic and medium who has helped many people overcome their fears and anxieties about the future.

Jan 30, 2011 - Anya Laurence

For anyone considering a ski trip to Talisman or Beaver Valley ski areas, stop first at the Knights Inn and Restaurant for some authentic Indian cuisine.

Dec 22, 2010 - Anya Laurence

If you want a hearty breakfast, a delicious lunch or an elegant dinner, Alexa's is the place for you. Ten minutes west of Stratford and you are there.

Nov 15, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Stonetown Bedding and Gifts in St.Marys, Ontario, is a great place to go for stocking stuffers as well as big gifts for those on your Christmas list.

Nov 11, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Little Falls Crafters Market in St.Marys, Ontario, has great bargains for the Christmas shopper - everything from classy jewelry to hand-knit sweaters.

Nov 10, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Pine Valley Country Store is one of Lucan's Treasures. One can find everything under the sun here at spectacularly low prices. High quality, gentle cost.

Nov 4, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Alan Stepansky is a noted cellist, teacher and chamber music mentor. He has played under such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta and Kurt Masur.

Nov 1, 2010 - Anya Laurence

The story of a successful American composer whose works have been published and performed in many venues in the United States and abroad.

Oct 21, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Celebrated psychic Blair Robertson has correctly predicted many major events... such as the exact time Tiger Woods would return to playing golf.

Jun 24, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Born and educated in Stratford, Ontario, Barbara Collier's singing career has taken her to performances in Hungary, Germany, England and of course Canada.

Jun 22, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Actor turned playwright T.Cat Ford has a timely new play, "www.chaostrade-theplay.com: an American Comedy of Investment Errors" opening in NYC in 2011.

Jun 3, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Stan Duncan, of Quincy, Massachusetts, believes that his father, along with two other men, wrote the hit song that Louis Armstrong made famous.

Apr 20, 2010 - Anya Laurence

From an atheist/communist background, Sue Elwyn came slowly to belief in God, and became a nun of the Anglican Church in Canada.

Mar 28, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Conductors have been described as temperamental, brutal, gentle, humorous, wild, serene, egotistical and humble. It's time to find out if any of that is true.

Feb 11, 2010 - Anya Laurence

This quiz gives everybody a chance to test his/her knowledge of the lives of several classical pianists. Some questions are difficult, some are very easy. Good luck!

Feb 10, 2010 - Anya Laurence

A chance to try out one's knowledge of classical composers trivia and/or real facts about the world's great musicians. Top score is 100, genius level.

Feb 9, 2010 - Anya Laurence

Emma Curtis Hopkins, a teacher, enrolled in a course with Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, which started her on the path of religious life.

Jan 25, 2010 - Anya Laurence

She was a lovely and gracious concert artist and was very popular in Canada in the mid-twentieth century. However, she died in Canada at the age of 95 virtually unknown

Jan 8, 2010 - Anya Laurence

St Marys is a pretty town which is located at the junction of the Thames River and the Trout Creek, and sits on 700 acres bought from the Canada Company in 1840.

Oct 24, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Dr.Samuel Mudd of Maryland, was accused of setting the broken leg of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, of the famous acting dynasty...thus contributing to treason.

Oct 1, 2009 - Anya Laurence

If you find yourself between London and Stratford, in the pretty town of St.Marys, stop at the lovely new Darjeeling Tea Room for a delicious lunch or afternoon tea.

Sep 27, 2009 - Anya Laurence

The Bruce Peninsula has many attractions, not the least of which is the number of fine stores in Port Elgin and Southampton. Sauble Beach's The Seagull is unique.

Sep 16, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Sauble Beach is humming in the summer, with seven miles of sandy beach,rides, golf and stores. Lion's Head is a more subdued place to go to for relaxation and peace.

Aug 5, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Sarah Polk enjoyed the political life and was a great help to her husband while he was in office, writing speeches, tending to correspondence and other matters.

May 29, 2009 - Anya Laurence

A forgotten person today, Jane Pierce was a sad and depressed woman who had to lead a life in politics that she hated. Her tenure as First Lady was a trial for her.

May 26, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Billed as America's Representative Contralto, Jessie Bartlett Davis was the singer responsible for the great success of Reginald De Koven's song, Oh Promise Me.

May 25, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Alice Nielsen was a well-known operetta and opera star in America in the late 1800's and the early 1900's. She had a varied career, singing both opera and musicals.

May 22, 2009 - Anya Laurence

The story of Clara Louise Kellogg, an American opera star of the late nineteenth early twentieth centuries who had an operatic career in North America and Europe.

May 21, 2009 - Anya Laurence

It was said that she was a restless little girl who wanted something good for herself . She succeeded in having a great career, her own theatre and a million dollars.

May 20, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Martha Wayles Skelton ,a widow whom Jefferson married, died before he was elected president. She made him promise that he would never remarry. He kept that promise.

May 19, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Although she had all the necessary attributes of the First Lady of the United States, Ellen Herndon Arthur died one year before her husband took office.

May 18, 2009 - Anya Laurence

If you have ever sung the sacred song Jerusalem, you have experienced Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry at his finest. But he and Joseph wrote much more than songs.

May 16, 2009 - Anya Laurence

A German-born concert pianist and composer, he lived in Boston, Massachusetts, for over fifty years.

May 16, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Boston, Massachusetts, has been the birthplace of many celebrated musicians, and Carlyle Petersilea was one of the most famous at one time.

May 16, 2009 - Anya Laurence

The many accomplishments of African-Americans are well known to us in the twenty-first century, but those of Mme. C. J. Walker are well worth retelling.

May 15, 2009 - Anya Laurence

For centuries hymn writing and composing was a man's profession.These three women made it their task to not only write the words but compose the music to their hymns.

May 14, 2009 - Anya Laurence

He was never physically strong and was mentally unstable at times, yet he wrote some of the most glorious hymns in history.

May 14, 2009 - Anya Laurence

The writer of one of the most successful church songs in history was Alice Hawthorne, a man. He also wrote other little ditties such as Listen to the Mocking Bird.

May 14, 2009 - Anya Laurence

One of the greatest Christian hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers, has been sung in churches of various denominations for over a century.

May 13, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Door and Dreyschock were noted in their lifetime, and it is fitting that they are remembered today.

May 12, 2009 - Anya Laurence

These days everybody seems to be releasing CDs, and the market is flooded with new material almost every day.This CD, however, is well worth adding to your collection.

May 8, 2009 - Anya Laurence

The story of two brilliant and multi-talented musicians and writers whose lives were intertwined professionally and personally, brought to life by author Pamela Blevins.

Apr 29, 2009 - Anya Laurence

She's beautiful, glamorous, exciting, intelligent and always ready to go with the flow. Micki Moore keeps up with the times and is forever creating a niche for herself.

Apr 13, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Beginning as an artist, Sherry Becker has turned her artistic talents toward the healing of her clients' challenges, and has been very successful.

Mar 18, 2009 - Anya Laurence

Nancy Richards went to Kitchener's CKCO-TV while in university and is still there after twenty years, although the station's name has been changed to CTV.

Feb 27, 2009 - Anya Laurence

The noted and the notorious lie side-by-side in Brooklyn's venerated burying ground including Leonard Bernstein and Lola Montez, both involved with music.

Feb 24, 2009 - Anya Laurence

After hearing this latest CD by Sara Buechner one is left with the impression that she is indeed one of the greatest pianists of the present day, and perhaps of all time

Feb 18, 2009 - Anya Laurence