The opportunity to see two great plays starring two great stage actors was impossible to ignore on our recent visit to New York for our family’s annual Thanksgiving gathering.  And since both plays are in repertory on Broadway at the Cort Theater, we made a day of it and saw one on Saturday afternoon and […]

“… from these honored dead we take increased devotion … that this nation … shall have a new birth of freedom … and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” —Abraham Lincoln, from his Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863) I wonder what Lincoln would think […]

I was seventeen on the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.  That was 50 years ago this week.  November 22 fell on a Friday in 1963, as it does, coincidentally, this year.  I was a high school senior and had just completed a practice drive with two other classmates and our Driver’s Ed. teacher […]

If it is true that there is an inherent poetry to the game of baseball, then the way the season began and ended, opening with tragedy in the same city that celebrated the triumph of its team at the end, was the stuff that poet’s feast on. On April 15, just as the annual Patriots’ […]