- Description
- John Kinane is a resident of Hilton, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York. A former middle school band director and music teacher, John changed direction into technology and web and multimedia programming. He holds a Bachelors degree from the Crane School of Music and a Masters degree from Nazareth College of Rochester. Interests include percussion, drum and bugle corps, progressive politics, astronomy, web programming and raising three great kids.
![Another Lilac Festival has come and gone. We were fortunate enough to go the first day when the weather was perfect and the crowds were light. The lilacs weren’t in […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/magnolias-115x115.jpg "2011 Lilac Festival in Rochester, NY")
![I was given my first telescope for my fifteenth birthday. For years before this I was fascinated with the stars. Having a real telescope changed everything. It made all the […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/orion130mmST-115x115.jpg "It Begins")
![This was my first attempt to sketch an astronomical object. It created it on August 9, 2004 by simply by sketching what you see in a telescope eyepiece. Astronomers used […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/2004_08_09_M24-115x115.jpg "My First Astronomical Sketch")
![I have some bad news for you, Sunshine. Schools fail because their communities fail them. Period. Not maybe or probably or possibly. Show me a failing school in an affluent […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/failing-grades-115x115.jpg "Schools Fail Because Communities Fail")
![Most of my childhood was spent in the seventies. Technology was still very new at best and the spectacular images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope and even by amateurs […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Proxima1-115x115.jpg "Why I Love Astronomy")
![If you’re not a native of Clearwater Beach, Florida the first thing you will notice when you step off the plane is the light. Golden sunshine framed in a glowing […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Kinane_2009_06_06-0052-115x115.jpg "Clearwater Beach: A Slice of Heaven")
![Retirement. Some people dread the thought while for others it can’t come soon enough. In either case this is a wonderful civilized concept that our modern society enjoys. At least […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/double-dipping-115x115.jpg "Don’t Ostracize For Double Dipping")
![What do you know about the BP Oil Spill? As much as the media tells you. What does the media know? They know what BP tells them. The rest of […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bp-115x115.jpg "Time To Take Control")
![It has been a year since a bear died after falling from a city neighborhood tree in Rochester, NY. The case is considered closed. That is sad. After watching the […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG00004-20090616-1059-115x115.jpg "Hearse for a Bear")
![I’m old enough to remember when Skylab died a fiery death over the Pacific Ocean. July 11, 1979. The clippings were on my bedroom wall for years. Not long before […]](http://johnkinane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/space_shuttle_11-115x115.jpg "Space Shuttle Program Nears End")