LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
and visiting hospitals, hospices
and private homes, by request. Selecting songs based on what a patient or the patient’s family wants,
they approach the bedside and
sing from memory — from upbeat,
jaunty songs like “Take Me Out to
the Ballgame” to original compositions, which are most common.
Synakowski’s choir practices for
90 minutes each week at a D.C.
massage school and posts flyers in
local coffee shops seeking people
who can “communicate kindness”
with their voices. At a recent rehearsal, they could be heard singing, in preparation for some future
bedside performance: “It’s alright,
you can go/ Your memories are safe
with us/ It’s alright, you can go/
Your memories are safe with us.”
Elsewhere in the issue, Radley
Balko puts the spotlight on Bisbee,
Arizona, a town of 5,500 people
about 10 miles from the Mexican
border, and at the center of the
state’s debate over gay marriage.
As Radley delves into the politics
and introduces us to local officials
and residents on both sides of the
issue, he also shows us around
Bisbee in all its eclectic, freespirited glory: the art festivals
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