Of Fools, Goddesses, and Neighbors

A detour by way of Pottsville returns us to Christine and le Perche, a corner of the French countryside where French country living turns horror flick.

Still from “Meshes of the Afternoon,” 1943 experimental film by Maya Deren.

I don’t like to name names, but I will. And if in doing so, I offend, I ask forgiveness. This is as much my portrait as that of anybody else.

Some of you may remember Brown’s Hobby Shop on North Second Street in Pottsville. My French friend Thierry, a true packrat, would have love…