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Point of View: But Still We Must Stay on Our Toes

I am about to begin my 57th year at The Star. Yet I should not be borne wistfully into the past.

Sep 28, 2023
The Mast-Head: Essential Huntting History

What is the Huntting Inn, anyway?

Sep 28, 2023
The Shipwreck Rose: 4TRR

I am a superfan of the — terrible, awful, no-good — television franchise “The Bachelor.”

Sep 21, 2023
Point of View: Yes, Attention Should Be Paid

I was taken to task recently for not giving as much space to the Travis Field memorial softball tournament as I did to the Artists and Writers Game, but both events were noteworthy.

Sep 21, 2023
The Mast-Head: Quiet of September

September at summer’s end feels as if the world is in a kind of abeyance.

Sep 21, 2023
Gristmill: After Cormac

When Cormac McCarthy died this summer, I didn’t go to one of his late novels, I went to “Blood Meridian.”

Sep 21, 2023
Point of View: Yearning for the Old Days

Confined to one sports page these days, whereas, formerly, I was granted three or four, I’m inclined to yearn for the old days.

Sep 14, 2023
The Mast-Head: The Great September Surprise

On Sept. 21, 1938, the morning of the Great New England Hurricane, as it came to be named by news writers, indicated a perfect end-of-summer day. There was little warning for tropical storms in those days.

Sep 14, 2023
Gristmill: Nothing in the Tank

When a good-natured and for-a-good-cause 5K becomes an obsession and a mission.

Sep 14, 2023
The Shipwreck Rose: Cadillac Cars

How lucky we were to be born into Cadillac America in the century of progress, optimism, 20-cent milkshakes, and rock-and-roll. Everybody in the 20th century had something to say about Cadillacs.

Sep 14, 2023
Gristmill: So Much for Tradition

Long-running college football rivalry games are down the drain.

Sep 7, 2023
The Shipwreck Rose: A Pink Carnation

The best thing about reality bathing is that, in addition to intensifying the quotidian pleasures of simply being alive in the mundane, it slows time.

Sep 7, 2023