The house is very high and narrow and my first reaction to it is utterly visceral: I feel it like a blow to my stomach that stops my breathing. But how can this be? It's so plain, so drab, not a bit of ornament: No towers...read more
by Lori Cox
Few, if any, of us have never heard the old sing-song rhyme: "Lizzie Borden took an ax, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty one." That fateful day occurred o...read more
Chatham in summer. The only noise you hear is the wind and some crying seagulls. The house sits high on a cliff, perched at the corner where East meets South at the tip of the elbow bent of Cape Cod. How nice to be sittin...read more
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