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
encouraging little encounters
I finally turned in last Saturday the huge piece I’d been working on for weeks, having hardly any contact with anything except my computer, and virtually no contact at all with the natural world. Spring was arriving without me. I played golf at the San Rafael Golf Club on the Isle Bizard, which is off …Read More