writing
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15 Ash Street. White clapboard siding (long overdue for both sanding and repainting) wraps an unremarkable two-story colonial sitting on a desiccated postage stamp of land. We would struggle to consider the combination of sod, roots, and dusty loam a ‘lawn,’ but are prepared to allow such a definition in the interests of efficiency. This…
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The Devon River delineates not only the face of this town—standing sentry as the faces of both its main thoroughfare and population change—but also separates two geographically and economically very different facets of New England. The structures on River Road, once referred to as a ‘taxpayer’ buildings (commercial storefront on the street level with housing…
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It is to this door, and this establishment, to which our attention is drawn. Our awareness, as if carried by an unfelt breeze, has brought us here. To bear witness, even if we, ephemeral as we are, can act not. As we make our way through the door (in our current state we miss, and…
Matt Greene 