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Day by Day
Swinging for the Fences
By: - Aug 04th, 2015Over the span of a decade Vincent van Gogh created an oeuvre of some 2,000 works including 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings. The fifty works on view in Van Gogh and Nature at the Clark allows us to realize what results when an artist works almost every day. That made me think about the 250 or so poems and two books that I created in this past year. What is produced today inspires what happens tomorrow.
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Twosomes
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New Histories
How Past Become Future
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015Catching up with old friends we share stories, laughs and memories. Without a present, creating new stories, there is little hope or reason for future meetings.
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That ‘70s Show
Mass Birthday Celebration in Sheffield
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015My buddy Jim Jacobs, known as Shango back in the day, and Kathleen hosted a last hurrah for the Berkshire hipster clan. It was held in a barn and tent in Sheffield. Just up the road a piece from where Benno and Stephanie held all those holiday celebrations. We gathered from near and far for an evening of Indian food and a groovy rock band. On the dance floor Astrid had all the right moves.
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Tommy
Having a Silver Ball
By: - Jul 27th, 2015To get up for the gig, The Who, we dropped acid. From the front row Ronnie and I were blown away by Tommy.
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Arnie Reisman Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate
Clara Bow Died for Our Sins
By: - Jul 27th, 2015As I inscribed in my book for him Arnie Reisman was my first and best editor starting with the Brandeis Justice and then Boston After Dark. I have enjoyed reading his first book of verse Clara Bow Died for Our Sins.
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Remington
The Write Stuff
By: - Jul 27th, 2015A fine arts major I expected to spend my life as an artist. That has proved to be more or less true with as many facets and tangents as a cubist composition. A rejected gift of an old Remington upright typewriter changed everything.
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Freddy's Music Unlimited
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Brilliant and eccentric he was an actor in the WPA. After a breakdown moved to Boston and the care of my father. Opened a record shop where I worked for him on Saturdays now and then.
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Uncle Freddy
Dove of Peace
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Like many urban poor during the Great Depression my colorful Uncle Freddy was a card carrying member of the Communist Party of America. He was better red than dead.
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Aboard the Yacht Rachel
Tennis and Yoga!
By: - Jul 26th, 2015More tales of the Ancien Regime recalling Marat's lists composed in the bathtub. But in Annisquam not Paris where they eat cake and sail by moonlight.
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The G
Witness for the Prosecution
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Poet, archivist, photographer, raconteur Gerard Malanga lives with books and cats in Hudson, New York. Time was in leather he performed a whip dance with the Velvet Underground.
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Storm
Summer's Sturm und Drang
By: - Jul 25th, 2015Nature unleashed causing havoc for the author absorbed in the task of writing.
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Every Other Sunday
Growing Up in the Dark
By: - Jul 25th, 2015Before cinema or film noir on every other Sunday, the maid's day off, we went to the movies. On many levels I grew up in the dark.
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Family Business
Sons in the Great War
By: - Jul 24th, 2015Starting with a tavern in Gloucester around 1910 then in Boston my grandfather James Flynn ran hotels, bars, speakeasies and nightclubs. Booze and entertainment was the family business. During the war that's just what my Uncle Arthur, later a judge did. In the air-force, as an officer, Uncle Brother landed planes from a tower in England. The good life was, and still is, the Flynn family business.
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James Flynn Flynn Letter to My Dad
Posted October 26, 1940 On the Occasion of My Birth
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015My grandfather James Flynn was noted as a man of few words. This is a verbatim transcription of a rare note that he wrote to my father on the occasion of my birth. On many levels it is a remarkable document.
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Gaff Rigged Catboat
Day Sailing
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015Setting a gaff rigged catboat has its challenges. It's an old fashioned rig for sailing.
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Visit to Brooklyn
Pain in the Ass
By: - Jul 22nd, 2015In fear and desperation James Flynn one and only time traveled by train from Boston to Brooklyn. There to seek care from my father. It was emblematic of love and trust.
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On the Porch
Meeting the In Laws
By: - Jul 18th, 2015Mom married under one condition. That after their internships and residencies the young doctors would return to Boston and her family. Josephine and James Flynn were shocked that their daughter married an Italian even though he was a surgeon. Dad eased into it with pipes on the porch.
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Baylor Bullies
Sicilian Deep in the Heart of Texas
By: - Jul 16th, 2015The oldest of seven children from an immigrant family in Brooklyn Dad was the first to attend college. With a pharmacy degree he worked three jobs to help support the family. He left home to focus on the goal of becoming a surgeon.
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Three Irish Lads
Two Nugents and a Flynn Set World Record
By: - Jul 14th, 2015My grandfather and two Nugent in laws set a world record in 1898.
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O' Maley Birthday Party
Renting the Hockey Rink with Pizza
By: - Jul 14th, 2015On the way to Ipswich for a birthday party. Renting the hockey rink with pizza to celebrate.
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Adams
The Terrorist Next Door
By: - Jul 14th, 2015On Monday nights a group of artists meet for dinner and gossip at Sushi House. Great food and margaritas served by Joy with just that. In the busy summer season there's a lot to talk about. Eric Rudd had hosted his annual Beach Party on Eagle Street. Fun stuff, news of exhibitions, projects and book launches. Then it got real dark.
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On the Eve
Winter Pone People
By: - Jul 11th, 2015Ice skating on the eve of turning 76 has its treacheries. But also the joy of teaching to the toddlers potential future Bruins.
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James Flynn
Ran Boston Taverns and Inns
By: - Jul 10th, 2015The only difference between the Boston Irish Flynn and Kennedy clans is that the Kennedys made more money selling bootleg booze. Three of four Flynn children graduated from college. Two went on to careers in medicine and one in law. Uncle Arthur sat on the Federal bench. The Kennedys , of course, knew some success in politics.
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Old Mr. Boston
How Yankees Celebrate Independence Day
By: - Jul 09th, 2015During a party on the rocks in posh Northeast Harbor, Maine I discovered how old money stays that way.
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