January PineStraw

By Kelly Mustian  Photograph by John Gessner On the second floor of the Boyd House, cloistered in quiet rooms set apart, Weymouth writers-in-residence labor over novels, poems, memoirs, and all [...]

Against Desirelessness The heart needs more than quiet, more than a home without desire. Sorry old masters, before I can let go, won’t I need to be holding on, refusing to let something loose? In [...]

Weymouth’s cultural mecca turns 100 By Bill Case      One hundred years ago, a remarkable couple made a remarkable house their home. Sitting commandingly atop Shaw’s Ridge east of downtown [...]

Reclaiming Weymouth’s literary legacy By Stephen E. Smith It was as if, for a moment, I could remember the future. I’d just left Sam Ragan’s office at The Pilot where he’d chatted with me, a [...]

January is a waltz between a warm den and the bleak and frigid landscape. Inside, movement is unhurried, ritualistic. The fire crackles. The gentle cadence of the cat lapping water is a dreamy [...]

Art Nouveau and a 19th century Warhol By Jim Moriarty   Though no single artist invented the late 19th century Art Nouveau movement in the way Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque defined [...]