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Rick's List - Pomp and Circumstance edition
So far as I can tell from a family tree I found online, there are eight living descendants of the composer Sir Edward Elgar. Now, you may not have all of Elgar's works in your collection, but most of us are completely familiar with Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance," the processional played...
All aboard for Tuesday Night Paddlers
Hikers, bikers and runners all know that if you’ve been zipping merrily downhill for a while, eventually you’ll face a lung-busting, soul-crushing ascent.
Rick's List - clever beach gear edition
This week, my wife Eileen and I just finished the latest of our biannual "clothing transfers," which is where we gather all the stuff we've worn in the previous months and trade it out with what's needed for the current climate. Unfortunately, in typical Koster fashion, we're somehow a...
Pequot Cyclists keep on rolling along
While pedaling along Atlantic Street on the Niantic shoreline the other day, I watched sailboats tack and terns dive in Niantic Bay as fragrances from neighborhood flower gardens wafted in a gentle breeze.
Bank Street, up from the ashes with stories to tell
On September 6, 1781, Benedict Arnold reduced New London to a pile of smoldering rubble.
Rick's List - Great Inventor Edition
Necessity is the mother of invention — or so said the guy who came up with the animatronic wall-mounted fish that sings "Take Me to the River." But I'm not so sure it was necessity that compelled me to invent a new app called "Thwart the Codger." I think personal embarrassment...
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Celebrating trails – but what if they had built a steel mill or oil tanks at Bluff Point?
Often while hiking in or kayaking past Bluff Point Coastal Reserve in Groton, the largest undeveloped shoreline tract between New York and Cape Cod, I shudder to imagine a clanging steel mill belching sulfurous fumes; a 1,100-unit,...
Let the rhythm move you
There is something particularly gratifying about watching and encouraging my grandson, Theo, play drums.
Rick's List — The Brits and Their Fairytales Edition
Well, the Royal Wedding is over. But while I was in England covering the event — with, I might add, nuanced analysis, concise historical context, a minimum of sycophancy and just the precise smidgen of saucy wit — I took...
We are the worst killers on the planet
Humans typically regard lions, tigers, bears, sharks and other powerful, sharp-toothed predators as the most brutally efficient carnivores atop the food chain, but for the best view of the creature most responsible for widespread slaughter, we need...
My campaign against lawns
While browsing the garden supply aisle of a store the other day, it occurred to me that there are for sale at least as many items designed to kill as there are to help grow.
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Fran Lebowitz and Wally Lamb — Nov. 10, Garde Arts Center; tickets on sale at 10 a.m. today; $35-$55
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