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(A Novella) it Was a Very Good Year

      Age 19The City College of New York is situated in Harlem and I traveled there from the Bronx on the D subway train and walked the... read more

2 years ago 4 comments

Beach Mystery

My wife and I were walking the beach at Hammonasset State Park in Connecticut. It was a breezy Labor Day and everyone there was trying to squeeze in o... read more

1 years ago 3 comments

Cape Fear River: Implicit Threat

  The weather forecast that morning was for intermittent squalls accompanied by heavy downpours and powerful winds. We arrived in Wilmington N.C... read more

2 months ago 0 comments

Cities Vs. Towns

There are, at the very least. two very different worlds in America from which to choose to live: life in the big cities and life in much smaller towns... read more

10 months ago 3 comments

Confrontation in Charleston S.C.

Battery Park and Gazebo After touring the historic areas of downtown Charleston by car and on foot we pulled our car into a difficult to find and ti... read more

3 months ago 0 comments

Connecticut Graybeard revisits "The Big Apple" : Land of Perpetual Turnover

I suspect that everyone who has ever lived in New York  believes, at some stubbornly resistant mental level,  that the city of their experie... read more

4 days ago 0 comments

Conway New Hampshire: Reconnecting with NYC

My wife didn't have a clue, and even for me the possibility was lodged deep in those hidden recesses of the mind where you store early memories of tee... read more

1 months ago 0 comments

CT Graybeard revisits "The Big Apple" : Part Two

  ( This is a continuation of CT Graybeard revisits "The Big Apple" etc   The day, in retrospect was filled with images, sounds, and tastes,... read more

3 days ago 0 comments

Emptying out the Suburbs: NIMBY

In yesterday's New York Times we were greeted with the stunning news that the viability and the very continuance of suburban and ex-urban neighborhood... read more

4 weeks ago 0 comments

Essex Ct. : Mother's Day for a Submarine Veteran

It was the day before Mother's Day. We needed to get out of the house. There is just so much you can take of the endlessly repeated contentious argume... read more

2 months ago 0 comments

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