Everybody here on St. John is talking about the weather. There’s something out there. It’s not Florence, or Gordon. It doesn’t even have a name yet, isn’t technically a storm, but it’s out there, coming off the coast of Africa, …
“For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens…” –President George Washington, to the Hebrew Congregation …
Hurricane season begins today and I’m thinking about two of my favorite old salts, one British, one American. We had lunch a few weeks ago in the British Virgin Islands at a place called Peg Legs at Nanny Cay in …
Sunday morning and we’re walking along the Leinster Bay Trail. It’s different. There are rocks and coral where there used to be dirt. A beached boat blocks the path, a cartoon snorkeler painted on the side looking surprised to be …
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. –Samuel Beckett Don’t be afraid to fail.—Nick Foles We see poetry everywhere, and this week—as Philadelphia natives—we found it on the football field, first in the Eagles first-ever Super Bowl win in an unforgettable …
We love the performing arts at re:Write, and we’re honored to have some of the world’s most prestigious arts organizations as our clients. As we begin 2018, we are busy with the San Francisco Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s …
Just in time for Christmas, we’ve got photos from Thanksgiving, or, more accurately, “Thankspigging,” the community feast held every year in Coral Bay, St. John. Power and phone service are only now coming back to the far side of the …
One writer’s view of St. John, 11 weeks after Hurricane Irma. At first it all seems almost normal. After two months of waiting, of searching for clues, of seeing the pictures of the devastation and the signs of renewal, of …
Becky Ward will be home on St. John for Thanksgiving, but it’s a homecoming tinged with heartache. Though she, her partner, Patrick Rooney, and their two-year-old daughter, Hazel, are returning, Patrick’s 10-year-old son, Jack, is staying behind in Virginia where …
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“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost …