three new isms from the Adirondacks
just got this facebook message from Jim Reed, the brother of Pete and Jane, some of Keene’s greatest natives. Pete was an important source for my 100-page Dispatch, Notes on the Dialect and Culture of Upstate New York. Jim has been living in Long Island for many years, but his heart, as you’ll see, is …Read More
yo musiclovers and tidebuckas
It’s been a while. I’m back in Montreal after an epic journey through the back desert country of Utah and Arizona with son andre and his overland expeditionary buddies. Lots to blog about, but also now on deadline for Vanity Fair. The tidebucka movement is moving alone although all of its moving parts are not …Read More