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Nancy and I have been attending the Moby Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum since 1997, the beginning of a New Bedford tradition. We’ve only missed two over the 25 years since then. I wrote this a few years ago right after the reading of the final chase…
Read More »Thanks to our regular contributor Stephen O’Connor for bringing us another essay by Malcolm Sharps, who was born in England and has lived in Hungary many years. About this commentary on Thomas Wolfe’s iconic novel Of Time and the River, Steve tells us, “I’m glad that I got something of…
Read More »Five Rows Down and Three Across by Frank Wagner Five rows down and three across Through wild high grass of the burial ground We looked for old laid bones that could not be found. A generation has passed since his body was laid, Under piled dirt this skin and…
Read More »On her Apples, Art and Spirit blog, artist and orchardist has a new post welcoming the New Year.
Read More »The Christmas Fruitcake: An Ageless Tradition By Henri Marchand A note from the author: Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay on WUML-FM, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun newspaper, and showing up on this blog for the past few years.…
Read More »Congratulations to artist, writer and farmer Linda Hoffman of Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio in Harvard, Mass. (and our sometimes contributor) for joining the ranks to commentators on WBUR. Linda’s essay on the apple orchard at the Winter Solstice is now online. Also, Linda has a terrific post based…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. FICTION Homeland Elegies, this year’s novel by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, is a stunning book about what it means to be Muslim – in America and in the author’s father’s home country of Pakistan. It is so autobiographical…
Read More »From Dracut to Hollywood: The Wendell Corey Story by Juliet Haines Mofford I confess to being a film addict since childhood. Money saved from my paper route went to Saturday matinees and Photoplay magazines. I kept scrapbooks of movie stars and sent away for autographed pictures. My mother considered movies…
Read More »IRELAND’S MOST LOVED INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOPS This week on Trasna, we feature a few of Ireland’s Independent Bookshops. Ireland has over 200 Independent bookshops, and they fulfill a role that larger chains don’t: they are true members of their community. As poet Enda Wyley explains: “Here you drop in to browse…
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