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Photo essay: La Fête du Potiron
During the color starved months of a Normandy winter, I find myself looking back at photographs from La Fête du Potiron, a festival which used to take place each [...]
Photo essay: Open air market
When I go to one of the two open air markets within a quarter hour of our house, it is not to do my regular shopping, which I do [...]
Photoessay: The Crèche
If you’ve been lucky enough to visit New York City during the Christmas season, you may have nipped into the Metropolitan Museum for the express pleasure of seeing the [...]
Photo essay: Twin Towers
As I was scurrying through Newark Airport’s Terminal C on my return trip to Paris in late September, the sign for a meditation chapel caught my eye. Having just [...]
Photo essay: Omaha Beach
There are risks to picking up sticks and moving to a foreign country, and a zillion questions arise: Am I ever again to feel comfortable conversing? How shall I [...]
Photo essay: Our young blacksmiths
It has become something of a summer tradition for us to travel from our home in Normandy to a Benedictine abbey tucked in the hills of Western Connecticut, where [...]
Photo essay: Sticking to tradition
Raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, daughter of a Jewish mother and Anglican father, both non-practicing, I was introduced to religion later in life. As [...]
Photo essay: Home at the forge
My husband, Simon, is a Master Artist Blacksmith; he began learning the craft in England from his father, and later, during the 1980s, went through a traditional Journeyman formation, [...]
Photo essay: Views of Normandy
Views are like faces I have gotten to know over the years. Living in the region of the Normandie Bocage, hedged farmland or mixed woodland and pasture, since 2008, [...]
Photo essay: Les Créoles de Gwada
On the morning of my son’s tenth birthday, we rose early to catch the first train to Paris, just over a two-hour ride, where we were to collect and [...]
Photo essay: Cody rodeo
Life is a dot-to-dot. After graduating from an East Coast university in 1987 where I studied journalism, I found myself moving to a far-flung pinpoint on the U.S. map, [...]
Photo essay: Ferro battuto
I was bitten by the blacksmithing bug late in my twenties. It was during a visit to a lovingly restored blacksmith shop in Bethlehem, Connecticut, where I first swung [...]
Author
Born and raised in New York City, Betsy has worked as a journalist for a variety of newspapers including the Cody Enterprise in Wyoming and the New York Daily News. Photography has played an important role in her storytelling and a clunky Nikon ranks among her favorite companions. A French citizen, she lives in rural Normandy with her Blacksmith husband and two Potcake dogs rescued from the streets of Guadeloupe.