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For oral historian Linsey Lee, the tale is with the teller.
Most of us collect stories, whether we realize it or not. We meet remarkable pe...
Writing and Poetry
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I have in my hands the first issue of Sports Illustrated, launched 62 years ago on August 16, 1954. The cover photo is titled “Night Basebal...
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The urge to conserve the natural world originates in loss: Until something valued and familiar is perceived as dwindling, who has any need f...
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Photograph:'Oak Bluffs II, 2015' by Alison Shaw. alisonshaw.com.
When I first summered here, there was a tiny filler column in the Viney...
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I tried to find my old self.
Looked under the bed
In the closet
Inside the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, behind the books on the shelves...
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My father, a city planner in suburban Connecticut, loved to tell stories of his uncle Freeman Bernstein, who supposedly was a major vaudevil...