Race horses, tracks and the people who give them life have fascinated me since I was 8. So it seemed fitting to launch the new site for The Bell.us with…
For many who read – or had read to them – the N.C. Wyeth illustrated editions of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper and the like, the pictures…
A new favorite writer offers a respite from our steamy weather: Now it is snowing, one of the terrific storms that first mute and then obliterate the…
I admire singers who take other people’s songs and make them their own. Most lack the empathy to express the emotion in the words they may sing very well. In…
Washington County, New York, offers a beautiful rural and small town landscape. With the Adirondack Mountains to its north and the Taconics and then Greens to its east,…
‘An Invisible Empire of Sidewalks and Gutters’: Says son Jotham, ‘Short version? Because of surveying errors and the like, there are tiny, unusable slivers of land all over NYC (and…