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Tag Archives: Block Island
Drowning in green
The wind whipped around my room like a wild beast, rattling the walls, the house literally shaking. I would wake up to find my heavy wooden porch furniture upended by the gales. I slept better this past month than I … Continue reading
Snapshots
— I got sucked into The Adventures of Mark Twain almost against my will. It has a ham-hocked script that rushes through the events of Twain’s life (his wife, “You are an eternal boy … why don’t you write about … Continue reading
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Tagged A Place in the Sun, Block Island, Fredric March, George Stevens, Mark Twain, Montgomery Clift, snapshots
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My little house: a small tour
It is so cozy and warm. There is a front porch with a nice rocking swing. There is a front room with a big wide table, perfect for spreading out my writing on. Also perfect for my laptop. The afternoon … Continue reading
“A thousand tons of coal…”
Excerpted from The Block Island Times, their fantastic “this week in history” section, by Robert Downie: This week in history, January 28, 1923, Block Islanders were busy mining the coal that would heat their stoves and cook their meals. As … Continue reading
Wind farms, deer hunting, and ghosts: this week on Block Island
Flipping through the weekly paper. Gives a great sense of the everyday life out here. My sister Jean taught out here for a year, and much of this echoes her stories (for example: ghosts do not fly over the water, … Continue reading Continue reading
“Feels like a blaze of fire.”, winter 1917-18
Excerpt from The Block Island Times, This Week in History: January 16, 1918 By Robert M. Downie The winter of 1917-18 was the worst one in 200 years or more; the extended cold wave creating the most frigid winter of … Continue reading
Some Island snapshots
— “I cannot imagine how a casual reference to Suetonius and Petronius Arbiter can be construed into evidence of a desire to impress by an assumption of superior knowledge. I should fancy that the most ordinary of scholars is perfectly … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Block Island, Christopher Walken, Deborah Kerr, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Evelyn Waugh, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hope, In a Lonely Place, Keri Hulme, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Neal, snapshots, T.S. Eliot, The Bone People
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Island Snapshots
— Big storm. Crashing surf. Mountains of spray. Wind so loud it literally shrieked. — Crazy bright stars. — Finished the novel Beware of Pity (New York Review Books Classics), by Stefan Zweig. Can’t believe it is not more well-known. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beware of Pity, Block Island, family, snapshots, Stefan Zweig, T.S. Eliot
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Excerpts from The Block Island Cookbook, 1962
I found this book in my house. It was compiled by the First Baptist Church on Block Island in 1962. The pastor at the time was fondly referred to as “Pastor Lou”, and the first page of the book helpfully … Continue reading