Nicole Colson, freelance writer/editor

04/22/2022

Interview number 2 with Melissa Etheridge

03/16/2022

My interview with William Shatner

12/27/2021

12/27/2021

My piece highlighting the work of volunteer Mary Lou Finley and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on poverty in Chicago

https://magazine.antioch.edu/article/the-path-of-nonviolent-resistance/

The same passion that drew Mary Lou Finley to Chicago during the civil rights era led her down the path to teaching social justice.

12/27/2021

My interview with Colin Quinn

C omedian and actor Colin Quinn didn’t understand the document that contains the principles that govern the United States. Instead of shying away from it, he has dissected it like

12/27/2021

My interview with the late great Martin Landau, whom I met in person when he visited the newsroom.

Not only are those who played the leads to his supporting roles not working anymore, many aren't living. But 77-year-old Martin Landau is going strong five decades after his career

12/27/2021

My interview with John Cusack

Anyone who lived through the ’80s has the image burned into their memory: a teenage boy standing outside a girl’s window, holding up a boombox that’s playing Peter Gabriel’s “In

12/27/2021

My interview with “Hadestown” creator Anais Mitchell

TRADITIONALIST

12/27/2021

My interview with The Low Anthem

Nicole S. Colson

12/27/2021

BELLOWS FALLS — Sticking to the true meaning of the word “artist,” Stan Ridgway has been drawing pictures with his songs since the early ’80s and his days as the

12/27/2021

My interview with Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie doesn’t mind playing his classics these days, whether it’s “City of New Orleans” or “Coming Into Los Angeles.” But if you want to hear “Alice’s Restaurant,” you’ll have

12/27/2021

My interview with Bela Fleck

The Clampetts were responsible for igniting Bela Fleck’s love of the banjo. And if anyone can elevate that instrument from its backwoods hillbilly connotations, he can.

12/27/2021

My interview with the great Steven Wright

https://www.sentinelsource.com/elf/deadpan-delivery-steven-wright-brings-abstract-humor-to-keene/article_d4b19f98-51e3-11e7-beea-b71959086fd8.html

The comedian that's so deadpan he practically flatlines on-stage, Steven Wright continues to kill audiences with his one-liners that could be considered strange – although he considers them to be

11/27/2021

My interview with Lily Tomlin

Still comfortable in her permanent identity crisis

11/27/2021

Among my older interviews I'll be posting here.

R ick Springfield has come a long way from his early days as a rock star and soap opera heartthrob, and at age 63, has become something of a renaissance

09/30/2021

Located at 48 Emerald St. in Keene, Nova Arts Block is a creative and collaborative arts and business space that contains Nova Stage, a place where emerging artists perform, underrepresented voices are heard, and unexpected juxtapositions happen. It shares a location with Brewbakers. A rotating open

08/04/2021

An interview I did with artist Bob Seaman.

As many of us were isolated during the pandemic, especially in its early days, artist/illustrator/teacher Robert Seaman, 88, was especially so. During a lockdown period at the assisted living facility he calls home, he desperately needed a creative outlet and turned to his life-long passion–drawin...

07/17/2021

My profile on MacDowell in the latest issue of The Business Journal magazine

05/26/2021

My piece on Scenic Route 100 in the Spring/Summer issue of Okemo Valley Magazine (yourplaceinvermont.com)

03/26/2021

NOFA-NH picked up my ELF magazine piece on the importance of soil health in farming - cool!

As concern grows in the U.S. and Europe over the climate impacts of beef production, plant-based diets are gaining ground.