July Mainer

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »

Sunshine is even more precious in Maine this summer. Everyone talks of the rainy weeks of June. One lobsterman shook his head and said, "Ain't had no spring. Hardly had no summer."  But since arriving on the eve of July ...

Singing on St. Helena

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Travel | No Comments »

In a white-painted, one-room building on St. Helena Island, Joseph “Rev.” Bryant was singing “Oh Lord, come by here.”  His voice filled the spare, shed-sized structure, with its benches of narrow boards nailed together, one bare bulb in the ceiling. ...