We’re an evolving project of discovery.

Our ideas, our music, our web pages, all in motion.

We’re history lovers, mostly storytellers.


Our thoughts and ideas are the bones we leave behind. 

The RTR Archive

an ode to to that funny little building crammed into a hectic new york city street, a little building that seemed so much bigger than it was.

Our Hart Island History

“In a series of Dickensian twists I ended up semi-incarcerated on Hart Island off the Bronx coast…”

Maxfield Parrish Sky

“For all the past beloved summer days and nights and all the radiant ones yet to come.” – Ellen Kaye

Your Oyster

“…the sense of no clocks, endless days, just rolling on forever in a blissful state.” – Ellen Kaye

Elegy

“In memory of Kim Tsang, my son Ian’s father.” – Ellen Kaye