Robert Michael Flanagan passed away peacefully on Dec. 8, 2023, surrounded by family, after a yearlong illness. Bob was 79 years old. Born on Feb. 5, 1944, in Memphis, Tenn., Bob grew up in South Orange, N.J., with his brothers Jack and Dave, and sister Mary. His mother, Helen Froehlich Flanagan, was a retired school […]
At 3:45 am on Friday, Jan. 18, 1884, the 275-foot steamer City of Columbus, bound for Savannah from Boston, struck Devil’s Bridge off Gay Head, and sank beside the treacherous rocks. Despite the heroic labors of local residents mostly Wampanoag fishermen willing to brave the bitter, dangerous winter surf more than a hundred […]
“What else?” James W. Jennings asks in the opening paragraph of his debut novel, which is based on his experience as a substitute teacher in the New York City school system, as a writer and an artist, as a Black man who rides the city’s subways at night because he is unable to pay his […]
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