My longtime friend Douglas Imbrogno issued a public challenge the other day, and not for the first time, to get us both working on the performance of a song we've loved since we were young boys with o…

Let's talk about our history as if it matters, because it does. Like many Americans, my personal history is deeply entwined in the history of the nation. Lately, for reasons that may be obvious, I fee…

So here at last was The Yard, where an expanse of grass sprawled between a small beach house and a quonset hut to our right, reaching inland roughly 20 yards and defining one side of the property. The…