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“Ex Libris”: Why This Matters Bookplates and their Meaning Curating one’s library is an ongoing process. Personal collections are living, breathing entities. If you are an active reader, staying current on your shelves, organizing them by alphabet or subject or how you see fit, giving books away to make way for new ones, and/or creating …
Charlestown is uniquely positioned to offer a good day of bird watching in South County, Rhode Island. The grass meadows and woods and the shoreline provide abundant and safe nesting places for varieties of species. Ornithologists and amateur bird watchers (a.k.a. citizen scientists) from all over New England travel here to catch seeing birds and/or …
T.S. Eliot for VDay I’m not exactly sure why without fail Elvis Costello’s “My Comic Valentine” pops into my head every February. Humming Richard Rodgers’ lyrics, believing in Costello’s rendition (though Chet Baker and Stan Getz works too) makes me happy, even as the years slip into decades. I hope that you too, dear Reader, …
In short, I was afraid: Ode to J. Alfred Prufrock Read More »
Kingston, Rhode Island Train Station: A Good Place for Embarking Somewhere along the line I stopped writing down my resolutions. Perhaps life got too busy trying to keep them. Every New Year’s Eve, attempts at change would be written in my journal. Somewhere in June, I would flip back its pages and try and …
This Advent This is my second December as a retailer and it can not be more different than 2019. Last year, Lauren Classey organized an amazing Fifth Annual Charlestown Holiday Ramble. We had a lively time wrapping books as gifts; watching the original Grinch try and steal Christmas, and eating chili outdoors around a …
Forcing Gratitude never quite works as well as a state of natural grace. Thanksgiving also requires honesty regarding reconciling the fairy tale we learned in the middle grades with the actual story of our country’s beginnings with respect to the treatment of the native Americans or Indigenous Peoples. Then there is all that food; elastic …
On August 28, a dozen of Charlestown residents gathered at BoP to brave the elements, namely those of mosquitoes and a mask wearing world, to discuss the condition of our salt ponds. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties and other end user mishaps, we missed the Salt Pond Coalition’s Zoom discussion, headed by Alicia Eichinger, its …
Charlestown Residents Socially Distance for the Sake of Our Salt Ponds Read More »