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August 27, 2017 Vic Socotra

More Reconstruction

(Looking and feeling my best on a Sunday morning). I sent along one of Arrias’s fine ruminations this morning about what happened after the American Civil War. It was an affirmation of how the wounds of a nation could be bound up, and let the healing begin. It was particularly poignant, considering the current hysteria […]

August 27, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: Reconstruction

Here’s a quiz: What song did President Lincoln have the band play shortly after the surrender of Lee’s Forces at Appomattox? In 1869 President Grant, filling various positions of his administration, nominated James Longstreet as Surveyor of Customs for the port of New Orleans. General James Longstreet, West Point class of 1842 (Grant was class […]

August 26, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Men Wanted

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 […]

August 24, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: American Borderlands

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 […]

August 23, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & ISland Times: Crossing That Bridge

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 […]

August 23, 2017 Vic Socotra

Swamp Post Card #11

How the heck did it get to be Wednesday again? Dog Days of August and the uneasy realization that the pool is going to close in less than two weeks. At least one problem is deferred: Congress is back home raising money, and not much is happening here in the muddy flats by the Potomac. […]

August 22, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Bats Over Barstow

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 […]

August 22, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: Equal Justice

If there’s one idea that encapsulates the Founding Fathers goals, it’s this: Equal Justice. A responsive government that worked – literally and figuratively – for the citizens, was a means to that real end: a political system wherein everyone – everyone – was treated the same. Last week a Congresswoman opined that Vice President Pence […]

August 22, 2017 Vic Socotra

Totality

Everyone was kind of nuts yesterday about the heavens, and the accidental passage of the moon between us here in North Americ and the solar orb. We were not quite in the sweet spot, and I was not going to join the other lemmings seeking darkness at noon, though naturally I am not opposed to […]

August 21, 2017 Vic Socotra

Dewey’s War Orders

There is a lot of talk about monuments these days. The direction it is going- more demonstrations in Boston this morning, results unknown at press time- amounts to an assault on the country where I thought I grew up. I am OK with the debate, though not the direct action taken against monuments to causes […]