The Attic

06/06/2024

80 years ago… Sergeant JD Salenger hits the beach on D-Day with the draft of “The catcher in the Rye” in his pack. Read “Holden Caulfield hits the beach“ in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)
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27/05/2024

In the Massachusetts 54th, democracy and racial equality found new champions and a startling memorial. Read more in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

12/07/2023

When W.E.B. DuBois debated a white supremacist, bigotry was laughed off the stage. Read “The Great Race Debate” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

03/07/2023

With Frederick Douglass, Jack Johnson, and a bunch of radical farmers, Three Fourths — of July — takes the holiday beyond fireworks. Read more in The Attic (click on profile link.)

01/05/2023

20 years ago, after decades as a bomb site, Vieques, P.R threw off the U.S. Navy and became a paradise, perhaps. Read “Vieques Rising” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

24/04/2023

20 years ago, bombed to bits, the P.R. Island of Vieques threw off the US Navy. Read “Vieques Rising” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

19/04/2023

When Will Durant asked people about “the meaning of life,” he got the usual answers. Then he asked a prisoner.

READ: “Life and Life Sentences” in The Attic . (Click on Profile Link.)

09/04/2023

Too late to avoid “climate chaos?” Think again. Read The Attic’s review of Rebecca Solnit’s “Not Too Late.” (Click on profile link.)

09/04/2023

How did women “crash” the Boston Marathon? Read “Marathon Women” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

27/03/2023

Fighting stereotypes since 2004. Read “The Audacity of ‘Black Violin’” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

26/02/2023

Photography was losing its focus when Edward Weston and friends formed Group f/64. Read “The Pinpoint Precision of Light” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

26/02/2023

Photography was losing its focus when Ansel Adams and friends formed Group f/64 — and blew us all away. Read “The Pinpoint Precision of Light” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

25/02/2023

Photography had lost its focus. Then Ansel Adams and friends formed Group f/64 — and blew us all away. Read “The Pinpoint Precision of Light” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

16/02/2023

R. Crumb’s most famous character keeps on truckin’. Read “The Wise and Wily Guru” in The Attic (Click on profile link)

31/01/2023

31/01/2023

You won’t believe what this old guy did with snowflakes. Read “The Ice Flowers of Snowflake Bentley” in (the Attic. (Click on profile link.).

30/01/2023

Before his trademark blue, Maxfield Parrish charmed children with his wondrous art. Read “Childhood Beyond the Blue” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

26/09/2022

Instead of this. Read “Jackie Saved Grand Central” in The Attic. (Click on profile link.)

26/09/2022

Grand Central looks like this. . .

26/09/2022

Because of her. . .