Editor’s Note: I have some shipmates I am eager to see at the Fleet Landing on the other side of the Styx. Well, not that eager. I am happy to take my time if I am granted it. My family had river sailors in the Civil War- Union, of course, part of Operation Anaconda- but […]

Author’s note: After spending an entire summer season, here are an initial impression of sultry Sundays in the Hostess City. sun-dressed women without men in a Savannah church Sunday morning; their men are gone or in jail or insane or dead; one floats by in a chic and attractive frock, waiting . . . hoping […]

Editor’s Note: This is a very personal introspection from shipmate Marlow on his new ‘hood in South Carolina. Regardless of the specific GPS coordinates, we are truly in terra incognita now, aren’t we? – Vic Almost every day I travel here in Savannah through local borderlands. What I see and hear in these places reminds […]

Months passed before I began to figure out what lay beneath and beyond my sight as I drove north over Savannah’s US Route 17 bridge. Do you know which bridge I mean? The memorial one named after Eugene, the former three term Georgia governor and bitter angel of the Jim Crow era, Talmadge. There is […]

Editor’s Note: God help me, Doctor Hunter S. Thompson, whose earthly remains were recently shot from a cannon at his beloved Owl Creek Farm near Aspen, CO, was one of the formative influences on my professional and artistic life. This is Marlow’s take this morning. God help us all. Bats Over Barstow America is speeding […]