Wednesday, October 30, 2013: Mt. Pleasant, NY, USA

According to its web site, the Mt. Pleasant Police Department was officially organized in 1941 after decades of operating as the Bureau of Water Supply Police, an extension of the NYPD created to police the Kensico Dam, its workers and area residents, and later as the vaguely-titled [...]

Friday, October 30, 2015: Bronx, NY, USA

My father never thought that the Boston Red Sox finally winning the World Series back in 2004, breaking the legendary “curse of the Bambino,” would ultimately be seen as the turning point of American civilization.

It’s downfall, some might say. Yankee fans, mostly.

He certainly never thought it [...]