The Anchorage & Spare Room Residency
As of today, Carlos and I have a named residence in Sag Harbor, New York! “The Anchorage” is our future home, and the future home of the very loosely organized “Spare Room Residency” (a way to get our artist friends to visit us in the country). How country is it? When I called to set-up utilities, a real person answered the phone. AND, there is no municipal trash service. Now we’ll have real metrics for one family’s weekly waste production…
Even though the house was built in the 1930s, I like to imagine it as a “whaling cottage.”
Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there; and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent their wages in that place also, poor Queequeg gave it up for lost. Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.– Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Nautical kitsch dreams can come true. (See all boat posts.)
How "The Anchorage" got its name (click photo for album)
I call first dibs on bunking with the First Mate. Or if he is not amenable I’ll take the spare room Captain.
We’ll be happy to have you as our messmate, JR. Each night we will read from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
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