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Tag Archives: environmentalism
A New York City Snowstorm: Pleasure and Climate Change
On January 2, 2014, at about 10 PM, I took Viva, my new miniature poodle, for her evening walk. Nobody else was about. The street, the lampposts, the houses and even the uncollected garbage were frosted by the season’s first … Continue reading
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Tagged brooklyn, climate change, de blasio, environmentalism, haiyan, hurricane sandy, janus, mayor de blasio, new york city, nyc snowstorms, sandy, snow, snowstorms, typhoon haiyan, viva, winter storm janus
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The Rockefeller Women
Since 1908, the year Nelson Rockefeller was born here on Mount Desert Island, part of the family has summered here ever since. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was one of the three fathers of Acadia National Park. The Rockefeller women have … Continue reading
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Tagged acadia national park, america's medicis, ann rockefeller roberts, cettie rockefeller, college of the atlantic, environment, environmentalism, grief, grieving, laura spelman rockefeller, loss, maine, mary louise pierson, mary r. morgan, michael rockefeller, mission of mermaids, mount desert island, mr. rockefeller's roads, nelson rockefeller, rockefeller women, rockefellers, susan rockefeller, the mothers' group, twinless twins
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Trash!
One of the rituals of my summer is to go to the local dump, more elegantly called the “recycling center.” Mount Desert, my township here in Maine, includes the residences of Martha Stewart, many Rockefellers, Zbigniew Brzezinski (security advisor to … Continue reading
Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 