By Michael Kaufman
The words of Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty welcome to our shores the “huddled masses yearning to be free.” What would Lazarus think of the current national debate over healthcare reform?
By Carrie Jacobson
Zoe and Kaja are holed up in a cave at the edge of the Delaware when the rain begins to fall and the river begins to rise.
By Carrie Jacobson
How can you not love a beagle? It’s a huge dog in a tiny dog’s body. This one is baying to the top of the moon.
By Shawn Dell Joyce
As our children go back to school, many parents grow increasingly more concerned about the school lunch program. Most school lunches cost between $2.50 and $3. So what do our kids get for the money?
By Shawn Dell Joyce
The Shawangunk Ridge, a panoramic view of the Gunks from Gardiner’s Sand Hill Road. Pastel on wood, framed out to 4″x48″. www.ShawnDellJoyce.com
Photography by Rich Gigli
AUTUMNAL EQUINOX – On Sept 22, 2009 at 5:18 P.M. EDT, the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, from north to south; this marks the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, giving us 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
By Beth Quinn
I thought I’d start with a little Dutch humor today as we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson crossing the Delaware.
Or something involving some river in the New World.
There you go. A little Dutch humor.
By Carrie Jacobson
The storm moved in over the Black Dirt region as Gene Bove and I painted there last Friday. The sky looked marbled with dark and light, and the fields lay mostly empty, harvested and waiting to be planted again.
You can see more of my paintings this month at the Wallkill River School Gallery, Route 17K, in Montgomery.
By Carrie Jacobson
Chapter 14
Zoe and Kaja, kicked out of the home/hotel owned by the Morrone family, head south along the Delaware. The Morrone kids are so upset that their dad has gotten rid of the dogs that he agrees to go looking for them.
Photography by Rich Gigli
The warm days and cool nights bring forth the mystical morning fog over the city of Paterson, N.J.