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D espite the wide open spaces surrounding my four walls here on the edge of America, a familiar closing in kind of mood crept up yesterday, ...

S ome might call A. Hays Town the premier southern architect of the twentieth century, but while that may be the case, too few outside of ar...

I n April of last year I remarked in these pages that poet Dorianne Laux has affected me more strongly than any poet I have read in some tim...

L ike any modern open stadium, glare was a problem for spectators in Rome’s Coliseum back in the day of the Emperor Nero. History tells us t...

F riday was a cold day in beachtown, leaving the water and wind-stirred stretches of sand for hardier specimens. A long part of the afternoo...

S houldn’t have put it in the washing machine, but a close look at the battered old baseball cap worn for beach walks told me that it was in...

E nglish singer-songwriter Nick Drake enjoyed only minor popularity during his short lifetime. He recorded just three albums before his deat...