My father’s trunk reminds me of one of my earliest Memorial Days
Perhaps we all have our first memories of celebrating Memorial Day. Mine comes from 1945 when my father returned from…
A terrible tale of a French village
The new prime minister of France, Gabriel Attal, has promised to “take care” of Oradour-sur-Glane. The village, in west-central France,…
Wild boar: a nuisance and a delicacy
“Comment trouvez-vous le sanglier?” Guillaume parent/hunter/head rôtisseur, asked me last spring, in the tiny village of Monthélie, next to Meursault,…
