It’s my Substack anniversary I’ve been writing this column for three years now, and this piece has been an all-time favorite.| maryswander.substack.com
Swander Woman Productions will present three opening performances of Mary Swander’s new play Coop, starring Rip Russell.| Mary Swander’s Buggy Land
A month ago, my 87-year-old neighbor Donna had a stroke in my yard.| maryswander.substack.com
I let down the front wall of the bluebird house, the gateway to the inside of the box, and saw four eggs–three blue and one white–in the tiny nest woven from grasses.| maryswander.substack.com
I stood in the little shelter at the Cleggan pier, waiting to get on the boat to Inishbofin Island, my wheelie bag in hand, a rainy mist falling down on my slicker, the hood pulled over my head.| maryswander.substack.com
Buggyland will never be Buggyland again.| maryswander.substack.com
“Together, the two drowned men left seven children in this school,” the elementary school principal told me.| maryswander.substack.com
The helicopter buzzed over my cottage, flying low, the noise so loud that I stopped my work and glanced out the window toward the Atlantic Ocean, the waves, a steady green unwrinkled blanket rolling out to Inishbofin Island, Ireland.| maryswander.substack.com
Echoes of the 1927 Cleggan Disaster| maryswander.substack.com
By this time in the evening, we thought the fire had to be out.| maryswander.substack.com
Sean Fitzgerald on the uilleann pipes with Jenny Tie the Bonnet and The Pretty Girls of Mayo.| Mary Swander’s Buggy Land
Sean Fitzgerald on Irish pipes playing "Blackbird," a hornpipe.| maryswander.substack.com
Things have been a bit up in the air here.| maryswander.substack.com
Liese Greensfelder, Bettie Swarts, Dan Pease, and more.| maryswander.substack.com
] I coasted my bike down the winding path past Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, the map of Omey Island flapping out of my jeans’ pocket.| maryswander.substack.com
In Buggy Land, cattle sometimes break through fencing and wander out onto the road.| maryswander.substack.com
or How I Became Multilingual in the Middle of Nowhere| Mary Swander’s Buggy Land
