August 2010

Horse Drawn

I think of the day the horses arrived as the day the farm came back to life. It was seven years ago, midwinter, and Mark and I had moved here that fall. We weren’t married yet. We were still in that hazy phase of new love—with each other, and with this new farm we were starting together. We had come with idealized visions of both. By the time winter set in, those ideals were being challenged by cold, exhaustion and fear of the enormity of the proj­ect we’d undertaken.

An-Tiki: Lake George’s Tiki Resort

An-Tiki: Lake George’s Tiki Resort

"Aloha," says Jimmy Faatauvaa, emcee and frontman of the Waikiki Supper Club house band at the Tiki Resort, in Lake George. “A-LOOO-ha!” he repeats, before launching into lounge-style renditions of “Stand by Me” and “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua.” This is the...

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