Long Before Reading Gaol
Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert was an early Dutch settler who explored portions of Central New York between 1634 and 1635. His accounts of the Mohawk and Oneida peoples and their settlements are some of the only first hand accounts we have of these First Nation communities as they existed before conflict and disease caused […]
Three
by Sophia Metcalf location: brooklyn, ny summer. you sit on my lap at a party. i keep looking at you. i guess i can’t really help but look at you, because you have made yourself the foreground of anything else i might try and look at. but i don’t really mind, because mostly, i’m looking […]
St Vincent’s
I remember that summer night like it was yesterday… It was early July, 1994. I had just finished medical school and was starting the first week of my internship at Saint Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, NYC. Before I got there I hadn’t fully grasped what I was in for. I was training in one […]
Daisy
In Italy when I was young, men were still required to do national service. If I had to be in the military, I wanted at least to do something I thought would be exciting, so I signed up for the paratroopers. I liked to fly, didn’t mind jumping from things. They were fascists mostly, and […]
Caffe Sotto il Mare
The Café Under the Sea was a historic café located on the ancient walls of Bari, with indoor and outdoor tables overlooking the marina of Bari. I had the pleasure of taking it over in 1996 and managed the cafe until the end of 2009. Il Caffè sotto il mare era uno storico bar-caffè situato […]