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The revival of the Sextant after nearly five years is rich with the suggestion that our community at Salem State College has not only weathered a difficult passage but has as well renewed its bearings. We are pleased to report that, fiscal constraints notwithstanding, the intellectual and artistic life of our faculty and administration has flourished. Our journal's logo is a sextant, the nautical instrument used for celestial navigation. We hope that the selection of essays, fiction, photojournalism, commentary, and reviews in these pages make the point that even in the darker times we as a community have managed to keep our eyes on the stars.
 

R.K. 

By the 1850s, illustrators were turning their attentions to a new kind of building: the fashionable homes along Beacon Hill and the newly reclaimed areas of Back Bay. Along with these came depictions of wealthy inhabitants riding in carriages or walking about in finery.
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

For this issue of the Sextant we owe a debt of gratitude for the kind help we received from a great many people, on campus and off. Salem State College President Nancy Harrington has willed the magazine back into print, and the touch of Vice President Hamilton's guiding hand has been light and benign. Our electronic mail acquaintance in Sweden, Torkel Franzen, negotiated with the Strindberg Museum in Stockholm on our behalf, and the American Repertory Theatre also assisted with illustrations for Dirk Hillyer's essay. Louisa Solano, of the Grolier Book Shop in Cambridge, helped us find early photographs of Harvard Square poets, as did Stratis Haviaras, curator of the poetry collections at Harvard, as did the Tufts University Library, and as did the poets William Alfred, Peter Davison, Maxine Kumin, and Richard Wilbur. Professor Tom Leary, who designed the Sextant logo, found students to illustrate Gail Gilliland's story. When the Embassy of Ghana failed to provide a photograph of the Homowo festival, Phillip Page on short notice produced a drawing. Susan Williams, special requests editor of Agence France-Presse, helped us identify and acquire permissions to reproduce photographs from the Gulf War. Salem State staff members Vickie Fox, Lucille McCarter, Laurie Toomey, and Mary Jane Anderson have on countless occasions smoothed our way. John Rendo helped us unpuzzle many floppy disks.

Sextant was printed by St. Martin Associates of Peabody.
 
 

Editor: Rod Kessler, English

Editorial Board:
Shelby Adams, Art
Sue Case, Biology
Ellen Golub, English
John Mack, Management
Eileen Margerum, English
Michael Prochilo, English
Vera Sheppard, Theatre & Speech
Janet Stubbs, Psychology
Ellen Vellela, English
Alan Young, Biology
 
 

Design, Layout and Typography:
Joyce Rossi-Demas, Graphic Services
Susan Lombard, Graphic Services

Photography: Leon Jackson, Instructional Media Center

Interns: Wendy Mahoney and Elizabeth Lydon

Sextant is published semiannually by the faculty of Salem State College. Opinions expressed by writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect college policy. Copyright (C) 1993, Salem State College.