Mike Fink
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Jacob Lawrence painted and illustrated the great migration of the African-American population, from south of the Mason-Dixon line northward and eastward, in a noted series currently on …
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Mike Fink
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4/4/19
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Marguerite Dorian Taussig came to our town, taught a class in botany, composed and contributed a fine and witty essay about how the names of perfumes change to reflect the mood of the times, and …
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Mike Fink
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4/15/16
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It’s midsummer and the dog days are upon us. A nice air-conditioned cinema showing an excellent documentary can make that heat much more bearable.
“Won’t You Be My …
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Mike Fink
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8/9/18
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I’d been planning my pilgrimage to the place where patriotism was born and bred: the bleak, black isle of Sint Eustatius.
“Don’t go there, there’s nowhere to swim, nothing to see, nothing to do,” advised a pair of sophisticated travelers I sometimes see at the pool at the local Marriott.
“Cruise ships avoid it altogether,” they claimed.
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Mike Fink
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8/1/19
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We met at a coffee shop. I was looking for him, and he for me. I took note of a slim cane on the floor beside his table. “Fink?” he inquired. We had arranged our rendezvous because his dentist told him that I was a person who would listen …
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Mike Fink
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8/18/14
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My story begins with my student Max Levi Frieder, who came from Colorado to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
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Mike Fink
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8/16/13
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I like to fight back against the health-food and exercise addicts. “My father,” I claim, “prescribed salt – a pile, a pillar, of it against infection, a cigarette as a cure for a cold, and a shot of Four Roses as a pick-me-up …
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Mike Fink
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2/19/16
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I met Alexandra Broches at a marina cafe in South Kingstown. She has served as director of the Hera Gallery in Wakefield, where she has also shown her prints, photographs and paintings. She has taught at both the University of Rhode …
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Mike Fink
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2/26/15
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I met my aunt Stella for the first time when I was a bar mitzvah boy, I mean a young teen-ager. Why? She came down to our cobblestones from Montreal, now that the war was over and travel bans were lifted.
You could take a train or drive on your …
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Mike Fink
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11/7/13
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I’m supposed to require “research” projects from the students in my first-semester journalism elective at Rhode Island School of Design. My first question to the students is, …
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Mike Fink
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10/16/17
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