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What a poet can teach us about death — and life

I was out for a drive in mid-April, rounding the corner from Beach Street to Merrick Road in Merrick, when Emily Dickinson’s words suddenly came to my mind . . . more

7/31/20

A sad ‘Fable for Tomorrow’ becomes reality

Upon hearing the news, my thoughts immediately turned to Chapter One of Rachel Carson’s famed 1962 book “Silent Spring,” which is said to have singlehandedly launched the environmental movement in the United States. more

10/25/19

Max Gold and his brother Jake Gold in August last year visited the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum. The brothers have commenced a federal discrimination lawsuit against the Smithsonian for refusing to let Max, who is in a wheelchair, to get in a flight simulator.

Merrick brothers launch federal discrimination suit

Growing up, Max Gold fell in love with flying. The lifelong Merokean, now 21, grew accustomed to frequent airplane flights as he and his family would commute from Long Island to Boston to see doctors who attended to his medical care. Max’s fascination with aviation never left him — he is beginning studies this fall at Farmingdale State College, majoring in security systems with a concentration in aviation. more

By Brian Racow | 9/12/13

Do animals really belong in zoos?

It was, for me, what Henry David Thoreau might call a transcendent moment, when the world suddenly turned still and time seemed to slow. more

Scott Brinton | 4/8/10

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