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 [...]
By Jenna Biter • Photographs by John Gessner Dec. 25 marks the first day of the Christmas season, not the last. In Christian theology, the 12 days of Christmas begin with the birth of Christ [...]
Separated by tragedy, musical voices are reunited By Susanna Klingenberg • Photographs by Eamon Queeney Musical instruments carry the souls of the people who have played them. Inside the [...]
WET CHRISTMAS for Richard Hood I’m cooking a pizza in the oven. Every bit of steam’s frolicking. Snug on my high bed, the sheets listen. From dawn to dusk the barnyard lights glisten When I [...]
