Memoires

Farm restoration – a Downeast Maine story

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

More a set of recalled vignettes than a systemic history, this essay will at least capture some of my photo archive in an explanatory framework.
Property purchase and rebuilding

As we drove up to the top of Ridge Rd. in Robbinston to the last visit on our hunt for a retirement farm in Maine, the vista that [...]

The Making of a Radical Worldview

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Recently I was contacted by someone who had been drawn into the life of the alternative high school, Rochester Educational Alternatives, an experiment I attempted during our time in Rochester. A conversation ensued in which he wondered what in my background was responsible for my decision to create a radical alternative to public schooling. This [...]

Close Encounters with the Trots: A Sort of Socialist Mini-Memoire

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

“What do two Trotskyites do on a deserted island? They found two Trotskyite parties!”
Taking their riddle seriously, Trotskyite parties tend to be fairly small, but there are many of them.
My acquaintance with the Trotskyite perspective has been a matter of brief glimpses over a forty year period. My friends in SDS in the sixties fingered [...]