Maybe you go to Art Walk for the free sips of wine and small bites. Maybe you go to forget your troubles, our country’s troubles, the world’s. Hopefully you go to appreciate the artists’ work. Definitely you go to support them.

This evening, Art Walk is packed. Everyone is out.

And the reason, I think, so many of us are out is because as the news of the world rages and there is fear below the surface of a lot of us, we yearn to think about other things. And in spite of the fact that many in the crowd has come off the ferry for a day’s escape from the city — even in spite of The Cove’s new plastic greenery wall that is not green in any way — we still have an authentic village feel.

I can see by the way a crowd gathers mid-way down Winslow Way that a band is playing. And there, front an

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