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Guide to Darby Chronicles: Domain of Shacks with Sign
Back in the 1970s anybody driving on I-91, the new interstate highway in Vermont that ran roughly parallel to the Connecticut river boundary with New Hampshire, would notice how beautiful the landscape...
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Darby Chronicles: The Village Store
In the fall of 2012 I drove to a Trimble Sketchup conference from my home in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, to Boulder, Colorado. I gave myself an extra two days and meandered on back roads. I wanted to...
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Dorothy McCurtin: In Defense of the town gossip
Dorothy McCurtin: In Defense of the town gossip The local gossip does not have a good reputation in popular mythology–intrusive, mean-spirited, malicious, sexless, physically ugly and vindictive....
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Two Dads Made a Writer
Some of my readers think that Freddy, Howard Elman’s son in several of the Darby novels, is based on me. He isn’t. Freddy is a wanna-be writer, but he’s not as good a writer as I am. However, Freddy...
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Today is the official publication date of HOWARD ELMAN’S FAREWELL
This image is from my new novel, HOWARD ELMAN’S FAREWELL. Howard, in his eighties, put up this sign to advertise his love of junked cars. This is what happens to old widowers–they go a little and...
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Poem
This is one of a number of poems I’ve distilled from my new novel HOWARD ELMAN’S FAREWELL. The working title for the poems is the Contrarian Voice, because Howard is always at war with himself. What...
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Cooty Patterson’s Cabin in Howard Elman’s Farewell
Fall Leaf and Broom: Cooty Patterson’s idea of Fall Foliage.
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Faux cover. Real book available from Amazon.
Drawing I made from one of my books. Figure from Thomas Eakins, sky from Whistler.
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The Elman Place
Elman Place [Space] Back in the middle 1970s when I was writing The Dogs of March and working a full time job as a news reporter I somehow found the time to go fishing. (Amazing the things you can do...
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