“Moe” was born in London – in Whitechapel – in 1904. His father had hiked across Europe, a “foot-goer” among a generation of migrating scouts in quest of work …
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Mike Fink
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6/3/21
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Well, I congratulated the Warwick Showcase for bringing us both “Magic in the Moonlight” and also “Calvary,” two movies that did not attract big crowds but offered stories with content as well as style. I have to add my best wishes to …
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Mike Fink
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10/23/14
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Several summers ago, I spotted a graceful shape in an empty field, a leftover lot among the riverside shacks in South Kingstown. It was an abandoned skiff, a simple rowboat that had outlived its …
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Mike Fink
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11/11/16
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Somehow a Florida golf ball found its way into my minimal luggage. I took it out on a whim and briefly bounced it among my receipts on my accountant’s table as I reviewed the events of the …
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Mike Fink
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3/14/18
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We had an open porch facing the yard at our childhood home. After the war, the G.I. vets looking for work closed it off and installed knotty pine panels from which we hung pictures and bas-relief decorations. We called the narrow chamber …
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Mike Fink
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5/22/15
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My only survival skill lay in words. I was too myopic to play ball as a boy, with a blind spot that allowed for a blow to my head before I knew what hit me. I could fight back only by being …
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Mike Fink
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11/6/20
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She lives near me in summertime, along Narrow River in South Kingstown. I would read her name as a board member of Save the Bay and always thought, “I should meet up with Anna ... …
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Mike Fink
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6/5/20
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“Privilege.” What does it mean?
The help at Frenchman’s Creek – a manicured and gated community in Florida’s Palm Beach – come from such …
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Mike Fink
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2/6/20
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“Evangeline” – the romantic, tragic, poetic epic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow we used to read in the Providence public schools – is depicted on postcards, posters, clips from the eponymous Hollywood movie with Dolores del Rio in the title …
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Mike Fink
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10/25/13
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Our new year and Sukkot come early this year, since we are a moon community, not sun-worshippers.
The moon is our neighbor, a pale pal fairly easy to reach in this century.
That’s my …
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Mike Fink
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9/6/21
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