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Memories of circuses and clowns.

Novella about Allen Moore’s 19th century Long Island mansion and the development of Plainedge and Bethpage Long Island at the turn of the 20th century.

“Mary’s Lord of Misrule”— tale in verse about John Thorogood, a 16th-century musician in the Courts of Henry VIII and Mary Tudor.
“Late Reflections”—poem

“Topography of Kingston Hill”—essay on Potter Wood and Biscuit City Preserves.
“Tefft Hill Pilgrimage”—essay on the Tefft Hill stone circle and Old Mountain Field.

Deciding to write a pandemic journal with monthly issues featuring essays, short stories, and poems. Describing the background and motivation which led me to embark on this project.

"Introduction" (a rather disorganized assessment of where we are these days)
"Visiting Trustom Pond" (going further afield with a fellow music lover)
"Trustom Frolics" (a little epic poem about simple things)
"Nature’s Wedding Dress" (a poem…

A reconstruction of a tragic novella in verse by Alonzo Gibbs

A novella based on a true family story from the 19th century.

This issue is devoted to war, not only in foreign lands but war against our own citizens by depriving them of civil rights and particularly the vote, their most precious possession. Strange that war arrives just as winter is ending and spring is on…

This issue of my pandemic journal is a continuation of my exploration of 19th-century American expansion westward. In March 2022 I covered my great-grandmother Christina Miller’s adventure in frontier Nebraska. This month I turn to my great-uncle…