Columns

I’m sure you see many things while driving that make you think about what the other driver is thinking or doing. I try to keep my eyes not only on…

Just the other day, I played the progressive rock group The Nice’s version of “Rondo a la Turk,” a variation from the Piano Sonata No. 15 by Mozart and the…

To The Loyal Readers of TownBroadcast: What a remarkable bird is the pelican, Its beak can hold more than its belly can, It can eat for a week, From the…

by Barry Hastings (Writer's Note: About half of this story is taken from a story I wrote for the Nantucket Map & Legend in early summer, 1988; the remainder comes…

For the past 30 years, Republicans have been playing defense. Every time there was a complaint about what a party representative or senator did or said, out would come the…

"No one is such a liar as the indignant Man" — (Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil) by Barry Hastings I see and hear many folks beating around the bush, like…

“Some days are diamonds, Some days are stones.”         — Dick Feller (covered by John Denver) While reading a recent TownBroadcast, I enjoyed the column “Yes It Is, It’s True: A Couple of…