Fall Improvements 2013

AUTOMOBILES Something To Cry About 13
TRAVEL The Annual Trek to College 4

A GETAWAY Escaping Fall Chores 15
DRINK The Word on Autumn Beers 8
FASHION Time For Tweed, Fellas 11
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Fall Improvements
September, 2013
2013 The Lakeville Journal Company, LLC
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4 FALL IMPROVEMENTS, September 2013
September means school is back in
session. But its August when cars, packed to the gills,
with bicycles strapped to the roof, clog the nations high-
ways. Its the annual migration to college.
I approached my sons decision to drive his truck
across the country from Lakeville, CT, to Prescott Col-
lege in Prescott, AZ, with an air of trepidation along
with a desire to go along for the ride.
Jack was game but told me, Mom, this is not going to
be an epic Jack Kerouac adventure. We just need to get
there.
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He also told me, Mom, I hope you realize, Im
not staying in a hotel.
Thats fine, I said. You can sleep in the truck in
the parking lot.
We would be three: Jack, his classmate Emma
Bornstein and me in a 2005 Toyota Tacoma, with
a bench seat, manual shift and a cap on the truck
bed.
College kids have strange priorities for what
they need in their lives. Years ago, I traveled to col-
lege with 10 of my favorite houseplants. For Jack, it
was an iron forge, an extra set of wheel rims, and,
of course, all of his camping and rock-climbing
gear. The back of the truck was fast filling up and
he hadnt packed his bike yet.
An hour before our scheduled departure we
emptied and repacked the truck, leaving behind
the wheel rims and a funky high school project
hed been determined to finish. Jack and Emma
spent a last few minutes rifling through my CD
collection; Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash, Ry
Cooder and Bruce Springsteen would all make the
trip with us.
I took the drivers seat for the first leg of the trip.
Pulling out of the driveway I noticed the gas
gauge read empty. I rolled my eyes. Good start,
I thought. Once fueled up we got underway. The
plan was to drive due west to Chicago, where Jacks
sister, McCullough, is living. We were bringing
her boxes of books and a cast iron pot too heavy to
ship. We thought we would make it to Ohio before
we stopped for the night.
When I was in college, my roommate and I
decided to drive back to school, across the country.
Her parents, who lived in Albuquerque, NM, were
giving us some furniture for our apartment in
New York. We rented a U-Haul van for our trip and
her mother came along for the ride.
The U-Haul broke down just outside the Albuquer-
que city limits and was replaced with an 18-foot
box truck.
It was enormous.
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but we made it to Texas. The way I remember it, my friend
was driving, and as she maneuvered this behemoth, she got
it wedged under the flat roof of a roadside truck stop.
We managed to disengage the truck without bringing
the building down, but we looked at each other and had to
admit, we were out of our depth and the furniture wasnt
worth it. We turned the truck around, drove back to Albu-
querque and flew home.
Now, some 30 years later, I was looking forward to com-
pleting the trip across the country. Jack and Emma were
delightful traveling companions. And there was humor by
the roadside. We passed an official sign that read, Buckle
Your Seat Belt for the Next Million Miles!
All went smoothly as we trekked along Route 80 in Penn-
sylvania, sharing the road with hundreds of semis and not
much else. We stopped for the night in DuBois, Ohio, Jack
and Emma agreeing to sleep in the hotel, instead of outside
it.
The only problem was that the bench seat was extremely
uncomfortable for the person sitting in the middle as they
had to swing their legs far to the right out of the way of the
gearshift. Two hours in what amounted to a twisted yoga
position was the limit.
. . . Recalling Past Difculties
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Jack and Emma were encouraging me to stay in Chicago
and visit McCullough and let them continue alone. But it
turned out that Emma didnt know how to drive a manual
shift car. No problem. Jack would give her a lesson or two in
the parking lots along the way.
We debated this as we passed by the cornfields of Ohio
and we debated it as we passed by the cornfields of Indiana.
It wasnt just the discomfort of three people in a truck that
comfortably held two. The truth was, Mom was slowing
them up. They really did just want to drive straight through,
pulling over at rest stops for a quick nap if needed. Moms
desire for a decent dinner and a soft bed did not appeal to
them at all.
When we got to Chicago I gave Emma a lesson. She was
grace under pressure as she repeatedly stalled the truck try-
ing to shift into first in the middle of rush hour traffic. But
she improved and I could see that Jack was going to prevail.
Once again, my cross-country odyssey was short-circuited.
Id made it from New Mexico to Texas and Connecticut to
Illinois. I just have to finish that middle leg.
And Jack and Emma got to Prescott in record time, texting
me at rest stops: 138 miles from Saint Louis, doing great;
120 miles from Amarillo, Texas, making good time; 120
miles from AZ border.
He didnt text me when he arrived, it was nearly midnight,
and he was, I imagine, exhausted. But he called the next
morning.
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and pumpkin pie, Bramley says of this autumns seasonal
brews, which are popping up everywhere. There are so
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I think autumn beers have a wide range of tastes. They
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Theyre a little more flavorful than the summer beers,
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Bramley notes that if you avoid autumn beers because
you think theyre too rich or heavy, you should think twice.
Autumn beers and Octoberfests are often surprisingly light.
These beers are not really that big and heavy. Theyre just
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Bramley has owned the Cornwall Package Store for 35
years, and he has always celebrated having 99 Brands of
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feat in the 1970s, but these days, there are hundreds of
brands competing for space. Bramley says the store now
probably stocks 200 different kinds of beer, many of which
are regional products from New England breweries.
Most microbreweries that have come along in the last 10
or 15 years make some form of a fall beer, just as they make
a summer beer and a holiday or winter beer, Bramley said.
Sometimes its more than four seasons and there will be
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suit, the poplins, the lightweight Madras jackets, the spectator
shoes, and the electric socks.
Fall is in the air, school is back in session, politicians are about
to start wheedling for the November elections. A man needs
some gravitas, and that means tweed jackets.
As the ancient Greek proverb states, A hairy jacket warms a
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full jacket linings, odd vests, medium-weight sweat-
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cause you never know when youll have to tramp
across a windblown field, and you dont want to
look like a yutz.
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clothing fan is the opportunity to start mixing up
elements.
Example: For the highly embarrassing photo
shoot for this story, I assembled three combinations.
The first, and marginally most formal, is a moder-
ately hirsute charcoal tweed jacket combined with
smooth elements a white pinpoint shirt, a silk tie
and pocket square, and worsted light gray slacks;
gray socks, and cordovan monk straps I found
thrifting for $15. (I cant help boasting about that.)
The jacket is half-lined a thin sweater could be
added for warmth.
So although most of the pieces are on the smooth
side, the centerpiece is clearly the jacket.
The next attempt uses the same trousers, a brown,
plain-toe blucher shoe, a blue pinpoint shirt with
silk tie, plain white linen pocket square, a tattersall
vest, and a doeskin blazer which is extraordinarily
warm.
The interplay here isnt in texture so much as in
patterns two solids refereeing a small riot be-
tween the stripes of the tie and the squares of the
vest. The white pocket square helps bring the thing
back down to earth.
The final look is casual a decidedly hairy tweed
jacket (green), a tattersall oxford cloth shirt with a
buttondown collar and no tie, ordinary chinos, and
rough-grained brown split-toe shoes.
Dark orange socks and a muted yellow pocket
square perfect the colors of the season, assuming
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I remember, with a sharpness that
still makes my cheeks burn, the time my 2004 Pontiac Grand
Prix ran out of gas on the I-84 entrance ramp in Newtown.
The situation couldnt have been more predictable: The gas
gauge didnt work (the needle either remained fixed on full,
or it flipped between full and empty like a metronome), and
since I had run out of babysitting money earlier in the week,
it had probably been at least 10 days since Id filled the tank.
I realized afterward that I had fallen into a pattern of ir-
rational thinking when it came to the Grand Prix, a firm but
untested belief that I could will the car to do whatever I need-
ed it to do. I could drive for miles and miles, and nothing bad
would happen. The car was a refuge from the strip malls and
chain restaurants of the suburbs, an assurance that I could get
up and leave whenever I wanted.
But on the shoulder of the entrance ramp that hot after-
noon in late May or June, with my thighs sticking to the
leather seat because the air conditioner also didnt work, that
teenage faith was broken. So I did the only thing I could do:
I cried. I cried loudly and lustily and in at least two octaves,
like a Greek professional mourner or a child lost in a super-
market. I cried so much that the armed state trooper who
came to my rescue offered me a menthol cough drop and a
very tentative hug.
I was 16 when that happened, still an acceptable age for
unreasonable bouts of tears. From then on, I imagined adult-
hood as the time beyond crying about car trouble. But even
now legally, emotionally, and financially an adult I still
cry. I cry when the power shuts off unexpectedly in my Volvo,
which happens about twice a year (the Grand Prix was sold
six months ago to a Pontiac buff who enjoys resuscitating
defunct cars). I cry when I need new brake pads, even if Ive
known for months that they have to be replaced. I cry when
the check engine light goes on. (I am somewhat proud to say,
however, that I only well up when I run out of windshield
wiper fluid.)
In a society that frowns upon profuse public displays of
emotion, I feel more than a little humiliated when, red-eyed
and hiccuping, I subject the mechanic to an incoherent and
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theatrical account of what went wrong. After I leave the auto
shop, the self-flagellation begins: Why do you always have to
have a meltdown when something happens to your car? Did
you even check to make sure you didnt have mascara all over
your face before you appeared in public? Where the hell is
your dignity?
But, in moments of clarity, I resist the idea that my automo-
tive boo-hoos are a sign that Im not a competent grown-up.
Its just a little hang-up that periodically becomes a big hang-
up, a fact as trivial to me and boring to others as my enthusi-
asm for cilantro. And maybe its not all that illogical, either:
I rely so heavily on my car that even minor malfunctions
can leave me hamstrung. So this fall, I intend to learn how to
change my own oil, check my own fluids, and replace my own
bulbs. And then, depending on how all that goes, Ill tackle
something more complicated, like installing my own brake
pads. I will become the weepiest do-it-yourself mechanic that
ever lived.
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the house and winterizing the yard, doing something
about the drip from the water pipe in the basement, call-
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the kitchen range, painting the house trim.
But not just yet.
Im dreaming of fitting in another trip somewhere.
Like the one we just took to Ottawa in Ontario, Canadas
capital city of 900,000.
We drove to the city from the southwest (having
crossed the border near Watertown, NY, at the Thousand
Islands) at about 4 p.m. on a Thursday. If you go youll
need a passport. Our hotel was at the west end of Rideau
Street. We were on Wellington Street and traffic was
very slow. The right lane didnt have as many cars in it,
so I took the right lane. Until a driver in a pickup truck
rolled down his window and yelled, Thats the bus lane.
Yup. Signs said there was a $250 fine for driving in the
bus lane. I got out of the bus lane.
Secured in our hotel, we ventured to Byward Market,
a combination of open-air and enclosed shops and ven-
dors of everything from jewelry to fresh blueberries to
Obama cookies. You see, Canada was the first foreign
country our leader visited after he took office. And prac-
tically the first thing he ate if you believe the Cana-
dian legend is a shortbread cookie decorated with a
red maple leaf, from Le Moulin de Provence. Daughter
Darcie acquired one of said cookies and I had a bite.
Good taste, Mr. President.
The next day we walked (we walked everywhere, as the
car was cocooned several stories below ground, reached
by the steepest garage ramp I want to drive in a while) to
the National Gallery of Canada. Before I talk about the
inside art, Ill talk about the outside art. Ottawa is full of
public art. At the National Gallery there are silhouetted
steel horses and a giant cast spider it looks like some-
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unified picture of children at a beach. As you get closer, they
shift sideways like venetian blinds.
The National Gallery has a respectable overview of aborigi-
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the large exhibit of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.
Looking at a Thomson up close, she said, you could see how
he created his shapes and colors. She could see things that
arent apparent in reproductions. Darcie liked the modern art.
I enjoyed George Segals Gas Station, the American artists
recreation with plaster figures, Coca-Cola machine, wooden
crates, tires and the like. You know, a gas station.
Outdoors again, we passed the Royal Canadian Mint, but
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the provincial info office at Byward (named for Lt. Col. John
By of the Royal Engineers, who directed construction of the
Rideau Canal) said we could walk over the bridge. My travel-
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Theyre not afraid of heights.
They walked leisurely over the Pont Alexandra. I loped.
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Street fellow, really came from Northwest Territory. I swear
its his face on the wall in the enormous gallery of native to-
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We went through the gallery of time called Canada Hall.
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Theres been some controversy of late in Canada; some
suggest the museum doesnt do enough to boast about the
achievement of famous white male folks. (Theyve gotten a
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visitations. He left us at about 9:30 near the National War Me-
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sound and light show projected onto the face of the Parliament
buildings. It is bright and bold and chest-thumpingly proud of
Canadian heritage. I took photos, but only a video would do it
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Street crossings are interesting in Canadian cities. Pedestri-
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The coinage is interesting. They still have nickels, dimes and
quarters, but no penny coins. Figures are rounded up or down.
Only $1 and $2 coins, Loonies and Toonies. And the 20-dollar
bills are mostly plastic. (Dont leave them in your clothes when
you put your laundry in a dryer, warned Darcie, theyll melt.)
We went to a downtown Chapters bookstore. I couldnt fig-
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people there, in a serpentine line. They were waiting to have a
copy of Omens (Women of the Otherworld series) by Kelley
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been a fan of young adult werewolf fantasy fiction. (I did grab
a couple of British police novels, though, editions that havent
been rewritten for Americans who cant understand British.)
My most memorable meal was at the Highlander Pub on
Rideau Street. I ordered bangers and mash. It came with a
big dollop of colcannon in a whiskey-imbued sauce and apple
wedges. I was skeptical about the colcannon, until I took a bite.
Yum. According to our waitress, it was mashed carrots, turnip
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Day of departure we walked to Chinatown on Somerset
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