Category Archives: Memoir
Carving for the Ages (Petroglyphs)
A slab of yellow sandstone larger than a dinner plate lay at the foot of an old maple tree close to a woodland trail in the Allegheny Mountains. The shadow of an inscription on its flat face made me pause … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegheny Mountains, Appalachia, Civil War, Droop Mountain, James Alexander Thom, log cabin, Petroglyph, Pocahontas County, Rock carving, Shawnee, İmamkullu
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Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay
I wonder if anywhere tugs at the heart more than an island home for an islander. This whimsical thought came to me while cruising on the Bay for a return visit to Tangier Island, when I was reminded of a … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Memoir
Tagged Brexit, Caulkheads, Isle of Wight, Outlander, Skomer Island vole, soft shell crab, Tangier Island, Truman Capote, Whisky Galore
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Peace in 2016
Posted in Memoir, Other, Seasons in Virginia
Tagged Alfred, Isle of Rhum, Lord Tennyson
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Time Long Past
“Christmas comes round faster every time, Roger, and the years go by more quickly when you get to my age.” Grandma’s warning was also the annual refrain we heard from a lot of older folk as we grew up, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging, Christmas, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Time, William Butler Yeats
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Virginia Nature Journal for May
The virtual extinction of the American chestnut across its range is like the story of the sack and burning of Troy. A few old timers can still remember when it was the dominant canopy tree both sides of the Appalachian … Continue reading
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Tagged American chestnut tree, Blacksmith, blight, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 