April | 2025 | Don Mitchell

Don Mitchell

writer / photographer / book designer / anthropologist

Easter Trolling

On Easter 2025 I found myself remembering an Easter thirty-seven years ago. Back in the eighties, my girlfriend Sharon and I started going over to the foot of Ferry Street to join the people fishing in the Niagara River, these being people whose circumstances didn’t permit boat ownership or trips to fishing streams. On our…

My Rolex

Before I gave it to my son, I used to put on my fifty-year old stainless steel Rolex Oyster Perpetual when I needed to impress someone. I’d take it out of the drawer and shake it a few times to get it running, snap the metal clasp in place, trying not to catch any arm…