On September 9th 1900, nearly 40 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and the first Juneteenth, the deadliest storm in US history hit the opulent town of Gavelston, Texas. Gavelston was and is still today a picturesque old Victorian-styled town, with a wide expanse of sea that sprawls along the horizon, always waiting to swallow it…

Recently, I was rewatching Tiger King, maybe due to some pandemic-era sarcastic nostalgia or simply because a friend hadn’t seen it. It was a great watch. An anxious watch also. As the show wrapped up, I was struck with a sense of sadness that our friend Joe did, in fact, go to prison for his…