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Just when you needed an emphatic voice on the side of sanity, here comes Billy Bragg.

Waiting on a new diesel engine for Cerberus, my sailboat. And then waiting some more.

The marsh has been underwater more often this year than the last. I suspect that sea level rise has a lot to do with it.

The “Noyack” spelling has strength, certainty. It amounts to a tribute, and it looks good.

The water table is very close to the surface here in much of the village and, as the climate changes and the rains increase, it’s only rising.

Footing is simply shuffling along in the water, toes in the sand or mud, feeling for the characteristic immobility and sharp edges of a clam alive in its shell.

A dip at Noyac's Long Beach gives rise to thoughts of where a guy's been, and what's been happening on the South Fork over the last two decades.

Is this July 9 birthday coincidence not astonishing? Daughter, father, grandfather, and best friend?

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Americans typically consume 7 billion hot dogs.

It was a track athlete’s worst nightmare, and now the defending 800 meters gold medalist won’t be going to the Paris Games this summer.

Europeans make fun of Americans for the way we go about grinning and chirping banalities at one another, but we don’t do it because we’re all idiots, but because the smiling, nodding, and have-a-nice-day-ing are folk customs that serve a social purpose.

Time was that “Turtle Crossing” signs were seen here and there. I don’t know where they all went, but the turtles didn’t go away.