LOOKING BACK, one of my earliest jobs was one of my fondest. Perhaps it is nostalgia for a dying profession from a bygone era. I was a milkman. Coming out Continue reading

ORCHARD OVERLOOK, oil on canvas, 48×60 GIVEN MY FAMILY HISTORY, it seems perfectly natural that I might end up spending years writing about (and painting) apples and agriculture.  Yet I Continue reading

CONNECTICUT RIVER, EARLY JUNE, watercolor on paper, 10×14 MY LOVE AFFAIR with the Connecticut River goes back more than 40 years, when I was founding editor of Momentum, a weekly Continue reading

EUPHORIA, June. (Russell Steven Powell) THE 18 HISTORIC SHACKS scattered across a five-mile stretch of the Cape Cod National Seashore are the subject of a documentary, a book of poetry Continue reading