Ted gives Jeff a quick fist bump before the two of them, and six other men, all swimmers, all 60-64 years old, and walk across the...

From Wikipedia Introduction Most of us have experienced moments that we can recall with vivid clarity years or decades later. I can...

John Lund Woods was born on May 3, 1792 to Daniel Woods and Rebecca Lund Woods in Corinth, Vermont. Daniel Woods was my 4th great...

All photos taken by Charlie Wood, Tom and Skips father, and scanned and provided by Tom Wood. Skip and Tom Wood, Duxbury Tom wakes to the...

January, 1961 It’s cold and dreary. Casey leans forward in the little car, closer to the heaters as the wipers slap back and forth. She...

Photo from NELSAP.ORG When we were in elementary school, even before then, my sister and I skied at Sky Hy. Officially the name was Sky...

Snapshots are intended to be about family history, family stories. Most often this means people. This Snapshot is a little different as...

A transcript of a talk presented by Nick Knobil. Nick's mother, Julie, is Casey's sister. Nick is Karen, Ted and Steve's first cousin....

A childhood friend’s social media post got me thinking about Place, specifically the where I live, Duxbury, Massachusetts, and the...

In the fall of 2020, Dickinson College announced that all classes would be online, that learning would be virtual. Charlotte decided...

Pinkerton image off internet) July 1985 Ted and I stand at the front desk of the Pinkerton Security offices. We are on the second floor...

Several years ago while on vacation, I took a walk in the Block Island cemetery to pass time while Karen, Ted, Alice, and Dylan played...

A fifth-grade me stands knee deep in warm lake water, my back to the afternoon sun. Wavelets kicked up by a summer breeze lap at my...

Like the post that precedes this, the following is a scene the genesis of which is a manuscript written by Courtney Coffing who was...

The following is a scene the genesis of which is a manuscript written by Courtney Coffing who, in 2004, was writing a memoir of Malcome...

According to Wikipedia, Northampton Massachusetts has a population of roughly 28,000, if you count its outer villages of Florence and...

With a few minutes to go before the starting gun, runners jockey for position. Pete heads to the front of the assembled mass. He’ll...

I heard that Karen’s cousin, Nick, was building an airplane. Not just an airplane, a Sopwith Camel – one of the first and most...

For years Casey Clark has mentioned the Lincoln Sparrow, named in some manner, after one of her relatives on the Lincoln side of her...

“So, you’ve done some sailing?” I consider the question posed by my 70-year-old neighbor, Paul, as he stands in my driveway. With his...