River Muse

After 9:11

[Ed. note: These two columns by Cass Collins, who writes the River Muse column for the River Reporter, were received after the section commemorating the attacks of September 11, 2001. They are …

Getting away

Why would anyone want to leave Narrowsburg in the summer? It’s our season. We earn it by living through winter with its bleak, bitter cold and snow; spring with its mud; even autumn with its …

25 years later

The first plane is already ash. You sit outside the school gathering your wits, your breath, your heartbeat to present yourself to your daughter being beckoned right now by her teachers to gather her …

After 9/11

I still startle easily. But I’m okay flying in airplanes again. Recently my son asked me to remember the name of a tutor he had in high school. I didn’t even remember he had one. 9/11 happened …

Dahlias, hydrangeas and zinnias, oh my!

In a growing season of only two months, August is the most beautiful. That is when we host our annual Art Garden party, and it did not disappoint this year. After experiencing a drenching …

The second one

The first photograph told me, 50 years later, how I came to be. It slipped out of an album, making me notice it and the date on it, and suddenly I was made aware of my genesis. On the day it was …