Dylan Thomas
The birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses I rose in rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. – Dylan Thomas
July 20, 2007
Road Home: For Ben Taylor, Musical Moxie Is Family Affair
Is there a gene for how you play a D chord on a guitar?
Ben Taylor jokes that his father reckons there is, for Ben forms the chord in exactly the same unorthodox way James does. Ben says it’s just that as a self-taught player, he copied the moves of the musician he…
As With His Buildings, Architect for Ground Zero Bends Ideas
The toes of Daniel Libeskind’s black elkskin cowboy boots curl up like those curved walls he so loves – spiralling curves that cross a void of history in the Jewish Museum he designed in Berlin, bathtub-like curves beckoning 75 feet down into bedrock in his master plan for the Ground Zero memorial, a curve…
Oak Bluffs in Ten Years: Island Version of Big Dig?
Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday looked ahead to an unsettling future, one in which the landscape of the Island is strewn with construction sites, construction trucks and traffic jams. But instead of pondering some hypothetical or even worst-case scenario, they were staring in the face of reality.
Closed to Shellfishing: Sengekontacket Pond Discussion Begins in Ernest
The pond bottom and shoreline rocks below Rick Karney and Dave Grunden as they sit, discussing the reasons for this week’s closure of Sengekontacket Pond to shellfishing, are green with weedy marine growth.
Nearby a duck, which has been feeding on the weed, raises its tail and drops another little contribution of fecal…
Film Highlights Role of Sharks on Eve of Yearly Tournament
Most people think of the shark as the ultimate symbol of dread, giants with cold lifeless eyes who cruise the ocean looking for swimmers they can tear from limb to limb. The very word itself is used to describe people in society who prey on others or who engage in deceptive practices.
There…
YMCA Backers Pitch Wastewater Solution
Most people think of the shark as the ultimate symbol of dread, giants with cold lifeless eyes who cruise the ocean looking for swimmers they can tear from limb to limb. The very word itself is used to describe people in society who prey on others or who engage in deceptive practices.
There…
