Emily Dickinson said you’ll know it’s poetry if it knocks your socks off, or words to that effect, and that was how Mary and I felt as we were watching the documentary “Viva Maestro” at the Sag Harbor Cinema the other day.

Lessons from the Dutch travails of World War II.

Praise, complaints, and kvetches: Our readers weigh in anew.

It happened here, from the hand-organ man of 1897 to the BB gun incident of 1947.