Pearl River My mother was from the South. She wasn’t just from the South, she was from the deep South, and for better and for worse, there’s hardly any part of the South deeper than the Mississippi Delta and counties like Sunflower where she was raised. She was smart as a whip, and in …
The Horror of Microplastics is Everywhere, Even on a Beach Near You
Pearl River Summer and beaches are almost synonymous in many parts of the world. The idyllic days with your feet in the sand, following crab tracks, walking in the waves at waters’ edge, as the sea birds hop away or soar overhead; it’s hard to beat. All of that is true, even as I …
An Organizer’s Legacy – Career Ladders
Pearl River Cape Cod in Massachusetts has a reputation as a tourist and second-home area. “Going to the Cape” is what people talk about in the summer months in Massachusetts, so a lot of the economy is seasonal. Seasonal for tourists means service work for the towns, even if the luster of the Kennedy …


