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Posts by Troy Gustavson:
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Column: A very unofficial history of Greenport
It was love at first sight. Well, actually, second sight, because I first set eyes on Greenport in the late ’60s, when I served as a summertime mate on a motorsailer...
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Column: My own version of ‘Grumpy Old Men’
Yes, it’s true. Somehow I’ve become a Grumpy Old Man and my only excuse is the inexorable acceleration of time. This grumpiness might actually have started a few years ago,...
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Gustavson Column: Can’t convince me I had the worst job ever
An outfit named CareerCast recently released a list of the “worst jobs” for 2013. To earn a spot on the list, a job had to feature “low pay, high stress,...
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Column: Wow, what a newsman we have
My mother, borrowing some folk wisdom from the Disney film “Bambi,” routinely told me when I was a lad that if I couldn’t say anything nice, then I shouldn’t say anything...
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Column: More tears for Newtown massacre
Yes, it’s true: I’m a crybaby. I cry at movies (“Shane,” “Cast Away,” etc.), I cried for two weeks straight as an 11-year-old at summer camp and I cried again...
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Column: One life ends, but another begins anew
This is one of those columns that’s pretty much going to write itself, I think. Sometimes I struggle to find a worthy subject (and sometimes I don’t find one), but...
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Gustavson Column: We made quite an unsatisfactory trade
I’m beginning to have some serious second thoughts about voting for Al Krupski for Suffolk County legislator. And that’s only because if he hadn’t won, and subsequently resigned his seat...
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Last chance to win our annual Oscars contest
Yes, it’s true, ladies and gentlemen! You have arrived at our annual Academy Awards contest column, wherein readers of same are challenged to pick the winners of the 85th Academy...
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Gustavson Column: Exploring a gun buyback program
So I have this old, rusty, single-shot, 20-gauge shotgun sitting in the corner of our bedroom, awaiting its fate. What to do with it? Leave it where it lies, indefinitely? Attempt...
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Gustavson Column: Reluctantly, still a football fan
The former Joan Giger Walker and I have not been seeing too much of each other recently. She’s been in one room reading books and doing crossword puzzles; I’ve been...
