Cameo Appearances

03/19/2026

The 2nd edition of this literary & art broadsheet
newspaper is hot off the press. I was one of 80+ contributors & you can receive a free copy by going to www.slipsslips.net.
It is not online to read. Please support a medium we have all loved. I grew up having the paper delivered in the morning & the evening.
Plus the articles & artwork are definitely worth your time. My piece is a memoir of Judy Berkowitz who grew up in the Greenwich Village 60’s - heard all the music, knew all the people.

01/28/2026

Like pay phones, these metro card machines for bus fare are a thing of the past.

08/24/2025

On her birthday today, I am thinking about the last time I saw Lisbeth Firmin at her February opening in Chelsea. One of our best selling artists, you loved her painting even more when you took it home with you.
So many memories, gone too soon, I miss you Beth.

05/11/2025

Poet, Keith Althaus’s son, Ellery, put together this book for his dad’s 80th birthday. Filled with poems & writings by friends & students, it is touching & spectacular.

05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all. This turn of the century miniature teddy bear belonged to my mom. She also saved my first kindergarten art project on the right. Appreciate & love. Pass it on.

01/04/2025

Going through old photos. Writing memoirs. De materializing. A special time in life.
These were taken in 1990.
Maria LaMadrid with her sister, T**i Yingling taken in NYC.
Gus Gutterman, Billy Rene & Franco Crivelli in Provincetown.
I have so many different ones. I will share them here on Cameo Appearances FB page, so keep coming back, please.
If anyone wants one, PM me.

07/27/2024

When I was in Truro in June, I joined a Zoom writer’s group that has been around for many years (in person before Zoom). One writer from the group just had this book published.
I asked the local library in PA if they had it. No & unbeknownst to me, they bought it & called me to pick it up yesterday.
I read half of it today. Page turning mystery on Cape Cod with roots in New Jersey.
Ask your library or buy a copy. Support the writing community.

08/23/2023

A favorite view of Provincetown by so many people is also a painting by Susan Baker, available for sale at her gallery.
You can visit or contact me for details.

02/27/2023

Cameo Appearances is proud to introduce a film we made with NJ photographer & filmmaker, Joe Guerriero.

My husband, Herb Atkins bought a property in Point Pleasant, NJ in 1989 but it had been an auction house since 1954.
Herb called it Concepts 1 Auction House & it was an old fashioned country auction. Our auctions began in 1994. They were held twice a month for the next 22 years.
The film we made with Joe Guerriero was of the last few auctions (& parties) with lots of interviews of the people who shared this with us.
ENJOY THE FILM:
A link to it is on our homepage- www.concepts1auction.com or go directly to YouTube & search Lynne Burns Concepts 1 Auction

11/18/2022

https://provincetownindependent.org/obituaries/2022/11/16/charles-francis-burns-73-had-a-lifelong-love-of-music/

Charles Francis Burns died at home in East Hartford, Conn. on Nov. 4, 2022. He was 73. Charlie was born on Aug. 9, 1949 in New Britain, Conn., the elder […]

10/02/2022

In the 1980’s, I was shooting rock and roll & I did a session with a Cape Cod band, The Cyclones.
Cleaning & organizing, I just found this.