By Dr. Jeffrey Lant They were such a cute couple. Everybody said so and everybody was right. Lauren, mistress of a smile a mile wide, petite, always stylishly dressed (a must for the future fashion designer she wanted to be)… Nathaniel towering far over his girl… a big boy but graceful, track star, football star, …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant It seems my father is right again. Ever since I can remember he has said, “People with Ph.D.s can do some of the dumbest things”… Then he’d reel off a list of his latest discoveries, always ending up with two or three of the waiters at a local restaurant who were, …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Did you have a nice day yesterday? It was the 4th of July hereabouts, a day sacred to beach going, music in the park and, of course, fireworks, Boston’s being always notable. It is also a day celebrating the nation, my nation, the United States of America. Yet the vast majority …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In 1969 The Guess Who recorded a catchy little number, an insidious bit of fluff that all of a sudden you find yourself whistling in a crowded elevator. Tunes can grab you that way, you know; this one surely does… and its catchy lyrics too. These lyrics are …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant It is high summer in Fall River, Massachusetts, once a focal point of American commerce and the most elegant of sailing ships, now a city defined by its gnawing problems and of people who arrive only to count the days until they leave this way station to something better. Many of …