For What It’s Worth

Thanks for your commentslots of you have written in support and I appreciate your words greatly. My poor Internet guru is temporarily out of action due to a motorcycle accident ( I knew I made the right decision to sell mine in 1972) but I hope to have a real web site up and running [...]

Memorial Day Parade in Old Greenwich10: 00 am. Last vestige of small town America in this town, and a chance to thank our soldiers. Don’t miss it.

We’re on Mars!pretty nifty. I stand in awe of people who can shoot a rocket 400 million miles into space, land it safely and begin exploring.
But as for another use of our tax dollars…the New York Times reports today that states are chafing at having to spend anti-terrorism funds on, ah, anti-terrorism. Rhode Island, [...]

More Market Blues, or, Apples to Apples1 Brookside Park in Greenwich came on the market in May 2006 asking $4,895,000 and sold in November for $4,250,000. Whether because of buyer’s remorse or a change in circumstances it was returned to the market by the new buyers in February, 2007, for $4,650,000 (nothing having been added [...]

We’re back!Just spent time in northern California attending my daughter Kate’s graduation from Humbolt State University. Lots of redwoods, ocean breezes and aging hippies from my generation. Wonderful people, so long as you avoid talking politics, which I did. When I complete my fatherly duties and pay for all my kids’ educations, I may very [...]

Must it always be Greenwich?According to this article, a Greenwich man, one Michael Guite, is trying to move a family cemetary on property he’s purchased in Springfield, Vermont so he can build a house. At lease one of the graves holds the remains of a veteran of the War of 1812 and, not surprisingly, the [...]

Bad times for all newspaper folksI just heard that Joe Pisani, editor of Greenwich Time, has been fired by that paper’s new owner. Sad, if true- the man did a yeoman’s job producing a cleanly written story of our town, every day, for years. My banishment to the Internet is probably all for the best, [...]

Linens and Things declares bankruptcyThis was the story that got me fired. Apollo Group, owner of Linens and Things, was reported (by the NYT) to be ready to put the chain into bankruptcy, together with its real estate company, Realogy, which controls Coldwell Banker and Sotheby’s. Friday, Linens and Things went down, confirming that part [...]