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Finding Winter

This winter in Connecticut has been awful – not cold enough, not enough snow. I remember my first New England winter 20 years ago. I had...

Satisfaction of Connection

Black College Nines founder Jay Sokol received my email more than a year ago after I discovered his fine website through my typical...

Dried Ink

Old newspapers and magazines fascinate me. I get lost in them, bound in musty hardcover a year at a time, a man alone in a library room...

January Art

This year, I am concentrating my efforts to create more, and more regularly. One of those areas is my visual art. Whether it's a...

Steak Bordelaise

Few will be the times when a hot water holding tank malfunction leads to an enjoyable experience. I don’t know this for certain because...

Summer of the Dry Oar

Facebook/Farmington River Tubing The kayaks have leaned up against the side of the house since I took them out of the garage in May. We...

Chatting with Hall of Famer Andre Dawson

The thing about Andre Dawson was his presence in the batter’s box. A hulking, imposing man prepared to club opposing pitchers into...

Live Recordings - The essence of authenticity

The moment occurs about two and a half minutes in. We've been carried along by the mellifluous and delicate arrangement of a well-known...

Gentlemen's Agreement: A snapshot of Jim Crow and college football

In the course of researching and writing a book about the Georgia-Yale series of 1923-34, I discovered another forgotten series that...

Road Scholar: Daytona Beach, Florida - Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Jackie Robinson and the Tortugas

Lemme shoot straight with you. When it came to Daytona Beach, Florida, I was close-minded and presumptuous, guilty of stereotyping one...

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