Everyone has that friend. The one that tells you that you just have to go to such-and-such a restaurant and try their possum sliders (I'm assuming your friend is from Appalachia). Bob Capellini's not quite that friend (too refined a palette), but he has been tireless in promoting the Great [...]
Nobody can deny that Rhode Island has a proud history worthy of appreciation. Crafting a full-fledged state out of a forgotten parcel small enough to be written off as a surveying error? A real credit to Yankee ingenuity. Let's say on that basis that Rhode Island merits a couple of [...]
If you're anything like me, you're inordinately fond of circus peanuts. And, more to the point, you're suffering a nasty case of race report fatigue. In an effort to minimize our collective discomfort, I'll keep this concise. Actually, let's go with "more concise". Polonius claims that brevity is the soul [...]
For years Tim Dwyer has dreamed of running a downwind race from Point Judith to Jamestown, taking advantage of the prevailing south-easterly winds to hurtle us screaming across a 10+ mile span of open water. Since this route passes by the Beavertail Lighthouse that inspired the name of the Jamestown [...]
The forecast for the 29th Blackburn Challenge was promising, at least for those of us who make their living writing about sudden and unexpected immersion. Winds of 10-12 knots from an atypical summer direction meant that it'd be a perfectly credible (and excusable) exaggeration to claim that the race was [...]
