TIME TO Go
Among the numerous things that could pull at a sailor’s heart-strings in Newport, Rhode Island, there used to be a shop on lower Thames Street named the Armchair Sailor Bookstore. Once very much a going and healthy concern, it became an early brick-and-mortar casualty to progress in the Digital Age. And it’s a place that’s earned a spot on my ever-growing list of regrets, for not having spent more time there when I had the chance, before it closed its doors after 32 years in business. As Joni Mitchell said: “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”
If you never had a chance to visit, the Armchair Sailor was a place to go to read up on how to navigate the world’s oceans, but, ironically,…
