Kelly Salasin

Category: on the ocean

  • Philly, Foreign & Familiar

    Kelly Salasin In the span of one season, this unlikely sports fan is back in the stands at another professional baseball game– this time in Philadelphia. Two decades in New England has made this mid-Atlantic city a stranger to me.   From parking-lot tailgaters to street cops to peddlers, the faces and attitudes in Philly…

  • The Sea’s Lure of the Soul

    Kelly Salasin, 2007 Sound of sails in the wind, rigging clanging, lures me down a funnel to summers at the sea–even if the sound is only a flag pole outside the American Legion on the oceanless High Street of Brattleboro, Vermont. Calls of blue jays and crows become seagulls, and I smell fries cooking in…