
Under attack from the inside
"Under Attack'' (encaustic relief over mixed media ), by Stephanie Roberts-Camello, in the group show "We the People,'' through March 14 at the James Library and Center for the Arts in Norwell, Mass. -- a suburb south of Boston on the North River.
Lovely, dark and deep
"Birches,'' by RUSSELL DUPONT, in his show "A Sense of Place: Photographs by Russell duPont,'' at the James Library and Center for the Arts, Norwell, Mass., Sept. 5-Sept. 30.
Norwell is a Boston suburb, a community with a strong sense of being on a river (the marshy North River) and the burial site of John Cheever, who, although he spent most of his life in New York City and Westchester County, wrote hauntingly about the South Shore towns where he grew up and whose physical beauty he cited.
I'd guess that many people readers remember this closing of Robert Frost poem "Birches'':
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