I belong to the first generation to think of itself as bicoastal. Born in New Jersey and now retired to California, I have spent a half century of summers on a small island off the coast of Maine. The surge to the shores is a post-World War II phenomenon, involving the hollowing out of the American heartland, now known as “flyover country.” Continue reading “In Memory of Rachel Carson”
The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History
“a history of such authority and grace.”