Sketch #19: Darkness, Darkness

Paint It Black

The author's palette table

Blackouts were not uncommon on Cape Cod when I was a boy, even in the summer. In August 1954, ten weeks after I was born, Hurricane Carol slammed into New England and came right up Buzzards Bay. 135 MPH winds knocked down poles, electricity and phone lines were down for a week. Saga, my father’s 32’ Norwegian cutter, broke free…