Above: Lime Rock Park CEO Dicky Riegel dedicates Skip Barber Tower on Skip Barber Day, September 1. Photo: Shawn Pierce.
How long can childhood dreams survive? What does it require for the fantasies of a wiry adolescent to mellow and mature, become so much a part of life that nothing can stand in the way […]
It was in the middle of yet another winter storm. The “New England Cocktail” was in full view – snow, sleet, and freezing rain well stirred with a gusting wind of 40 mph pushing against the windows. The age-old quandary of “shovel now or shovel later” was temporarily displaced by another cup of coffee and […]
It was not too terribly long ago that the doldrums of winter, stretching through January and February, could be mitigated with one visit to the mailbox. Long nights and days of howling winds seemed to be on the menu day after day with the dejected weather forecasters droning on about “mostly cloudy and cold with […]
It was, in fact, a close call … for which we are very grateful. The on-coming car did not bother to indicate that a left turn was in its immediate future and also didn’t seem to mind that we were motoring straight ahead in the opposite direction. Age may have taken its toll on some […]
Ah, the New Year. New beginnings. New resolutions. New ads on television replacing the mind-numbing political rants which had blessedly been replaced by fake snow, jingle bells, and well-dressed couples with darling “central casting” children celebrating the arrival of their new bow-festooned Christmas automobiles.
Now we’re down to a devastating cycle of ads for pills, potions, […]
The oncoming car was cruising along in its own lane, likely doing something close to the speed limit and generally abiding by accepted rules of the road.
What caught our attention was not the way it was being driven, but what was hanging on its grille – a holiday wreath, complete with a red […]
The buses are coming! The buses are coming!
Welcome to October in eastern New York, western Connecticut and Massachusetts, and Vermont. Welcome to the cavalcade of Vanhool, MCI and Prevost motor coaches rolling up and down Route 7 and Route 22, crossing the Mass Pike, winding up to Maine, crossing through New Hampshire and back, all […]
It is, as we are confident you’re aware, September. For those still in the swirl of the academic calendar, it’s a new year. Although some locales have opted to begin classes in late August, the end of summer and the beginning of school have long been associated with Labor Day. Decades after graduation, there is […]
After spending many decades in the tri-state area (we refuse to divulge the number for fear it might incriminate us), we have come to relish the celebrations of August. With summer in full swing and vacation days invested in golf and swimming and boating and bicycling and simply soaking up the sun, it is time […]
Managing a move from the Litchfield Hills to the outlying suburbs of Boston is no mean feat. In our case, it involved the standard “tag sales,” farewell dinners with friends, all of which ended up with the de rigueur “We’ll see you soon,” and multiple visits to the town transfer station to make deposits on […]