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The celebrants are a young, attractive couple. They stand at the center spot of the blackjack table as if they stopped momentarily. He’s tall, wearing a tux, and has impeccable hair. She’s shorter, thin, and in a dressy black number with spangles. Like Hoffman says in Rain Man, she looks like a holiday. Continue Reading → The post Nickel Men — A Gambling Story appeared first on Keith Skinner, Author. ©2013 "Keith Skinner, Author". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use...
On the day of my visit, winds gusted to 50 mph as thick furrows of clouds menaced on the horizon. It was fitting, I thought, given the demeanor of the island’s most notorious resident, Thorfinn Sigurdsson, the Viking earl of Orkney. He was described in the Viking history of Orkney, The Orkneyinga Saga, as “…the tallest and strongest of men, ugly, black-haired, sharp-featured, and big-nosed, and with somewhat scowling brows.” Continue Reading → The post Vikings in Scotland, a Visit to...
I'm honored to be included in The Pilgrimage Chronicles, a collection of 30 essays about pilgrimages worldwide with dramatic cover art by Lorie Karnath. Continue Reading → The post The Pilgrimage Chronicles: New Anthology, Now Available appeared first on Keith Skinner, Author. ©2013 "Keith Skinner, Author". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at...
Cultural traditions are not always as they seem and their origins are often more complicated than we imagine. So it is with the Acadians and Scots of Nova Scotia, whose unlikely convergence on Cape Breton helped preserve tangled traditions that first traveled to the island with their ancestors many generations earlier. Continue Reading → The post Chéticamp Brigadoon: Tangled Music Traditions in Cape Breton appeared first on Keith Skinner, Author. ©2013 "Keith Skinner, Author". Use of this...
He’d been silent, the other man at the bar, gazing into his glass of whiskey before growing animated at the mention of Mark Twain. “I met Twain one time, you know, out near Jackass Hill.” “You look pretty good for a hundred and fifty years old,” I said in jest, assuming he wasn’t serious. “It wasn’t all that long ago; a few years back,” he answered in a matter-of-fact tone, though he had a faraway look in his eyes as he said it. “For a few hours that day,” he continued,...
"A chill rippled across my skin as I realized that we were standing in that very room and the bed before me was the subject of the poem — the death-bed in 'The Bed by the Window.' Robinson Jeffers had written the poem as a young man shortly after building the house. Many years later, he had indeed died in the room, thereby fulfilling its destiny." Continue Reading → The post Inside the Tower: Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House appeared first on Keith Skinner, Author. ©2013 "Keith Skinner,...
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