Voice of the Vine
Wines for a Summer Night or Day The most wonderful thing about the summer season is that there is truly a wine for every occasion. Whether you are enjoying a light al fresco lunch with friends, a beachside happy hour, or a backyard barbecue, you really cannot go wrong with what you pour in your […]
ON THE BEAT
When in Rome, See Springsteen The concert was unlike any concert I’ve ever been to — Bruce Springsteen or otherwise — and I’ve been to over 100 of his shows. This one had an international festival-like flair. Walking by the sun-splashed columns of the Colosseum, en route to Circus Maximus, where gladiators once battled for […]
BEYOND RYE
Them Ol’ Cottonfields Back Home I seem to have a knack for looking out the plane window whenever I fly over the Mississippi River. It draws me like a magnet heralding me home, my personal Mason-Dixon line. From the air the land looks like a patchwork quilt of earth tones and textures — deep browns […]
For Two RHS Interns, Life Really Is a Beach
SoundWaters, the environmental education organization based in Stamford welcomed two Rye High School seniors at its spring internship program. For five weeks, Oliver Meier and Modi Blinoff worked at the organization’s Coastal Education Center at Cove Island Park. The pair was part of a larger group from several area high schools who, instead of attending […]
Let Your Beach Goddess Glow
Summer is the silver lining for us East Coasters coming out of hibernation. It’s now time to hit the beach club Capri, breathe in the ocean air, feel the sun on our skin (sunblock lathered, of course), and wiggle our toes in the sand. Last, but certainly not least, a new season gives us good […]
Good Reads
Beach Burners Curtis Sittenfeld, best known for her novel “Prep”, takes on the rom-com genre with “Romantic Comedy”. Meet Sally, a “Saturday Night Live”-like comedy writer, who creates a sketch that mocks the show’s gender social “rule”: Average-looking male counterparts get to date their hot female celebrity hosts. But when the week’s handsome global pop-star […]
Quite A Bit of Local History
During more than twenty-five years as a contributor to The Rye Record, I have submitted more than 150 columns under the heading “A Bit of Local History”. Here are excerpts from some of the columns I especially enjoyed writing. The Russians Were Coming (December 2005) […]
New Roadway Named for His Honor
A portion of Playland Parkway was renamed in honor of longtime public servant John Carey on June 9. Carey, who died at the age of 95 in 2019, was a World War II veteran, a Rye City Councilman and Mayor, a legal scholar, a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination […]
ALONG FOR THE RYE’D Wonderful Things Ahead
During the initial Covid lockdown of 2020, I had to take my dog to the vet. When I called for the appointment, I was told to pull up in front, call a certain number, and just wait. And I wrote it down just like that, the phone number and the words “just wait”. A month […]
Notes from an Old Golfer
I’m 82. When I moved to Rye and joined Rye Golf Club in 1976, I was 35. I played from the blue tees, the farthest starting points from the greens. When I turned 65, I moved to the middle-distance white tees. Ten years later, I played the hybrid course, half-white and half-forward or yellow tees […]