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Writing about life is the main thing that Cheever and Lee, whose short stories have been widely published, have in common. But there are also similarities in the way they live. Lee lives and writes at his home outside Croton, N.Y., only a few miles from Cheever's home at Ossining. He cleared five acres of woodland, wearing out five axes in the process, and built much of the house himself. Woodsmanship is a skill that Cheever and Lee share, and it reached a danger point on one neighborly occasion at the Lee place, when the two held...
...real life, Cheever country is that strip of New York's Westchester County that stretches from the Rockefeller estate in the Pocantico Hills along the wooded ridges of the Hudson's east shore to the estuary of the Croton River. "Except that he does not commute, John leads a fairly orthodox commuter's life," says his friend E. J. Kahn
Only the walking seems old-fashioned enough to be eccentric. Almost any Sunday, Cheever's small figure may be seen tramping on the back roads around Croton Dam trailed by his two Labradors. His lined, nut-brown face, like that of so many Americans of the middle class, is that of an aging schoolboy, and his clothes that schoolboy uniform-tweed jacket, khaki drill pants and scuffed loafers...
...Communism. Politics still bores him, except on the level where it might involve the school library or the new road that disturbs the kingfishers nesting in the reeds of the Croton estuary...
...instrument is now being used to find Sybaris, the rich Greek colony in southern Italy that gave its name to the word sybaritic. After losing a war with the nearby city of Croton. Sybaris was leveled to the ground, and the Crotonians made the river Crathis flow over the ruins and cover the site with silt. Archaeologists hope that some of the city's interesting features were sealed in protective mud, but they have never known just where to look for them...