Contributors

Contributors

“I did not get court marshaled, or keel-hauled, or strung up by my thumbs from the mainmast (windjammer sailors did not have easy lives), for saluting indoors or being out of uniform,” Buddy Mays recounts about his less-than-dignified encounter with the late Prince Philip, in his Email from Oregon, entitled “The Prince & The Pauper Redux.” (Page 8)

“The guard on the gate asked what the problem was, and one of the escorts said it was just an old war wound playing up,” Perhaps cover for something nefarious in “War Wound,” Frank I. Sillay’s “Email from New Zealand.” (Page 10)

“Sometimes the gods of sport take pity on long-suffering fans and hand us a reason to rejoice.” Pedro Pereira explains how it all came down in “The Pain of Winning,” his Email from New Hampshire. (Page 11)

“Post-vaccination, we began to peer around that corner out there again,” John H. Ostdick and family try out the new/once-old normal in “Postcard from Out There, Ripping the Band-aid Off Our Sheltered Pandemic Life.” (Page 13)

Jay Jacobs takes us through two poems: “As In A Dream” and “Observations Of A Common Man.” (Page 23)

Kendric W. Taylor provides the last installment of his World War I story, “Le Duc, Le Dauphin et Le Comte de Paris,” this chapter titled, “Silence in November.” (Page 49). He’s also written a beautiful family memoire, “Miss Dillon’s Gas Company,” with his great-aunt, May Dillon, in the starring role. (Page 17)

Excerpts from three books by three Natural Traveler Magazine contributors, provide incentive for beach, patio or campsite reading this summer: David E. Hubler’s, “The Nats and The Greys,” Buddy Mays’s “Hard to Have Heroes,” and Tony Tedeschi’s “Unfinished Business.” We also have a preview of Bill Scheller’s finest travel features for his upcoming collection, “In All Directions.” All of it beginning on Page 33.