Turn-off

Turnoff Week, formerly Turn-off TV Week and now in its ninth year, calls for people around the world to turn off their electronics, disengage from digital media and take a moment to think, read and create.

Lesli Rotenberg: Tuning-In During "Turnoff" Week Lesli Rotenberg 2010

There, he turned to the right, into the way called locally "Hammond's Turn-off."

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

The answer came from a short distance down the "Turn-off."

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

She had said precisely the same thing on that other evening, when they stood in the middle of "Hammond's Turn-off" in the driving rain.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

And, at eleven o'clock, when the village was in bed, a horse and buggy moved down the Turn-off and stopped before the Hammond gate.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

A short distance down the "Turn-off" stood a small, brown-shingled building, its windows alight.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

A lantern danced and wabbled up the "Turn-off" from the direction of the bay shore and the packet wharf.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But she stumbled on, up the main road to the Corners, down the "Turn-off," past the chapel of the Come-Outers, from the open window of which sounded the drone of a high, nasal voice.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

The broad-shouldered skipper led his charge out of the gate and down the "Turn-off."

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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