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Gift of Lester Dodge

By

Martha Ball

Mon, Nov 30

Category:

Island Notes

There is not a great deal in this town with the name of Lester Dodge written upon it. It is in the cemetery, on his gravestone, and beneath one of the long stained-glass windows in the Harbor Church, given by him in memory of his mother, Emmaline. He put her name on awards at school, and that of...
A rantum scoot

By

J. V. Houlihan Jr.

Mon, Nov 30

Category:

The Ferry Dock Scribbler

Wandering around with no agenda is one of life’s little perks as we get on in years. When we’re young we need to hustle and make our way in the world. We need to conform to certain protocols and do our jobs. Moreover, bills, kids, cars, houses and other things foster a sense of responsibility, and...
Dress for success

By

Capt. Chris Willi and Hank Hewitt

Sun, Nov 22

Category:

Fishing Report

Even as November presses on, the water temps are still quite warm. Sand eels have moved in good numbers at the Coast Guard Channel and in Harbor and Trim’s Pond. Schoolie bass are moving around New Harbor at night, congregating around the docks. There are decent bass being caught on the...
Loose Ends: Bad Life Choices

By

Zoe Estrin-Grele

Sun, Nov 22

Category:

Columnists

National Novel Writing Month: Day 11 Okay. I caught up. Sure, I was only 10 words over my goal for the day, but at least I wasn’t under, right? I’m feeling kind of uncomfortable with this novel but at least it’s still happening. One of the things they always taught me in my college writing courses...
Fading Fall

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Nov 20

Category:

Columnists

The colors of the fall have faded. The little vernal one-time pond now a vernal puddle by my gate has gone from several vibrant hues to a mass of bright red ilex . There is a maple up the road, that one afternoon a few weeks ago was...
Cash's Corner

Perfect Patriots tackle Bills Monday Night

By

Cassius Shuman

Fri, Nov 20

Category:

Columnists

Epic Patriots/Giants game! #HolyMoly That was my Facebook status immediately following the Patriots wild and thrilling 27-26 victory over the Giants Sunday night at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. I think that even casual fans had to marvel at the unpredictable drama that unfolded, which...
Fishing Report: Temperatures are perfect for striped bass

By

Sol Schwartz

Sun, Nov 15

Category:

Fishing Report

The conditions for large striped bass have been perfect for a few weeks already. Slightly higher water temps were probably what was to blame for their late arrival, but it looks like they’re here now. The stripers are not the only targeted species right now, either. There is plenty to do. Boaters...
Sailorwoman

By

J.V. Houlihan, Jr.

Sun, Nov 15

Category:

The Ferry Dock Scribbler

“Ok, I’ve had a stroke, broke my back or maybe had a heart attack, now get us back to the mooring in Edgartown harbor.” At the age of 11, Cindy Alten-Delotto’s father said this to her while sailing off Cape Pogue on Chappaquiddick Island. She and her dad were sailing a 38-foot sloop, and Cindy was...
Surrounded By Water

By

Martha Ball

Sun, Nov 15

Category:

Island Notes

It is with an abundance of caution thrown to the wind that I say my reaction to last month's meeting on coastal change, one intensified with my reaction to other people's reactions, was “what has happened to us?” I do understand the politics of it all and, absolutely, it is always a positive thing...
Cash's Corner

Patriots face challenge in Giants

By

Cassius Shuman

Fri, Nov 13

Category:

Columnists

Rain or shine, or the adverse health of their roster, the New England Patriots vengeance campaign keeps rolling on despite having to deal with seemingly perpetual personnel challenges. The Patriots are 8-0 for only the second time in franchise history, after literally running over the Washington...
The joy of... novel writing

By

Zoe Estrin-Grele

Sun, Nov 8

Category:

Columnists

National Novel Writing Month and the Art of Hating Yourself This year will mark my ninth year participating in National Novel Writing Month (commonly known as NaNoWriMo or just NaNo if you want to save yourself a tongue twister.) NaNo is a personal challenge with a lot of backing. The goal is to...
Dead or alive – rigged eels

By

Chris Willi

Sun, Nov 8

Category:

Fishing Report

The highlight of this report is that some quality bass in the 40-plus inch size were landed (and verified with pictures) by surfcasters plying their craft in the earliest morning hours. Areas range from the Southwest Point, to the Southeast Light and rigged eels accounted for the better fish, with...
Sweet November

By

Martha Ball

Sun, Nov 8

Category:

Island Notes

“She needs a tennis ball,” an old friend comments on a photo of Autumn’s collection of toys. My response is “it’s in the yard!” thinking also of a net bag nearly full of the bouncy yellow spheres hanging in the kitchen. My dog has, at last, decided they are fun, although her dedication is not at...
Cash's Corner

Patriots focused on hosting Redskins

By

Cassius Shuman

Fri, Nov 6

Category:

Columnists

If the New England Patriots beat the 3-4 Washington Redskins on Sunday at Gillette Stadium, they will be a sparkling 8-0. The “vengeance campaign” rolls on as the Patriots continue to ignore the noise around them while focusing their attention to executing on the field. What’s the latest in the...
Loose Ends

Marriage is an institution

By

Zoe Estrin-Grele

Sun, Nov 1

Category:

Columnists

All of my friends are getting married. Usually I have to stop at this point to reconsider the truthfulness of my statement, but not this time. While “all” is a bit of an exaggeration, at least 85 to 90 percent of my friends are getting married. These are people in my age group, between 22 and 27,...
The Hardest Time of the Year

By

Martha Ball

Sun, Nov 1

Category:

Island Notes

Too late, I think, for it to be sunrise, I open my eyes to a bank of color along the eastern horizon, that “red sky at morning, sailors warning” that makes one want to burrow deeper under the covers on the best of days. It is late October, and however beautiful it can be in mid-day, the daily...
Albies everywhere!

By

Sol Schwartz

Sun, Nov 1

Category:

Fishing Report

The weather has been amazing lately. Perfect fall weather has given fishermen plenty of opportunities to go out for the big one. This time of year, when most boats are already out of the water, the shoreline becomes the destination for anglers. Large schools of peanut bunker have kept many of the...
Cash's Corner

Patriots host ascending Dolphins

By

Cassius Shuman

Tue, Oct 27

Category:

Columnists

Watching Tom Brady pick apart a talented Jets team on Sunday for a 30-23 win was like witnessing a virtuoso violinist mastering the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major. Maybe that's overtstating things a bit, but Brady's play in the game was masterful and included two clutch fourth quarter...
Tentacled delicacies

By

Capt. Chris Willi and Hank Hewitt

Sun, Oct 25

Category:

Fishing Report

October usually marks the beginning of the end for the fishing season. Docks are shut down and boats hauled out, the long anticipation for next spring gets many of us through the winter. For those who wait it out as long as possible (like us), there is still some decent fishing to be had when the...
More than a dinner

By

Martha Ball

Sun, Oct 25

Category:

Island Notes

Roll Call began in October of 1900 when the congregation of the First Baptist Church was only newly moved from the old Civic Center, in the middle of the island, to the flourishing center of commerce grown around the Old Harbor. Their church on Chapel Street originally had been built as an ultimate...
Cash's Corner

Patriots face battle against nemesis Jets

By

Cassius Shuman

Thu, Oct 22

Category:

Columnists

With their victory over the Colts 34-27 Sunday night in Indy the Patriots are 5-0 for the first time since the 2007 season and for the fourth time in the franchise's storied history. Not surprisingly, three of those 5-0 starts for the Patriots were under the stewardship of coach Bill Belichick and...
Look out for the monster bass

By

Sol Schwartz

Sun, Oct 18

Category:

Fishing Report

Water temperatures around the island are finally starting to drop. After last week’s northeast blow along with cooler nights we should finally be set for fall fishing. I’ve noticed the squid in both harbors are a little bit bigger lately, as well as an increased amount of small baitfish such as...
It takes a village, to save a peregrine

By

Kim Gaffett

Sun, Oct 18

Category:

Ocean Views

On Oct. 5, I received three different phone calls/messages about an injured ‘hawk.’ The first call was from Norris Pike — which I could not take because I was in the bank — who described a large hawk on the porch of a house that he is building on the west side. The second call, from Donn Frageau,...
Our Lady of Fountain Square

By

Martha Ball

Sun, Oct 18

Category:

Island Notes

Columbus Day this year was magnificent, a perfect coda to a near perfect season of weather. In town, in the late afternoon, a young dad called back to his trailing family, all of them on bicycles: “Is everybody ready for one more climb... to the summit!” before leading them up the hill. There was...
Cash's Corner

Patriots bring revenge campaign to Indianapolis

By

Cassius Shuman

Fri, Oct 16

Category:

Columnists

The Patriots’ revenge campaign will be spotlighted in this week’s Sunday Night Football game against the Indianapolis Colts, which pits the alleged instigators of the Deflategate scandal against the team that’s been unleashing its vengeance upon the league and all the teams in it for being vilified...
Fishing Report: The Fall Run

By

Capt. Chris Willi and Hank Hewitt

Mon, Oct 12

Category:

Fishing Report

Mother Nature hosts amazing shows of natural force from time to time on her stage we call earth. This last week was an example of such, with sustained winds in excess of 40 knots, large tides, and a big ocean swell. We on Block Island call these ‘shore days,’ but some call it ideal fishing weather...
October Blue

By

Martha Ball

Mon, Oct 12

Category:

Island Notes

Walking out in the morning to play with the dog, moving from the west-facing door in shadow to the barnyard in sun is like walking back into summer. Last week, during a morning of radio hysteria over a hurricane that seemed every moment to be less of a threat to us, the weather site upon which I...
Cash's Corner

Patriots are back to business

By

Cassius Shuman

Fri, Oct 9

Category:

Columnists

I begin this week’s column by reflecting on the unusually disappointing season that the Boston Red Sox had this year. To say that the team as it’s currently constituted is a mess right now is an understatement. I listened to the final game of the season on Sunday, which was capped off by WEEI radio...
Fall

By

J.V. Houlihan, Jr.

Sun, Oct 4

Category:

The Ferry Dock Scribbler

The fall season began at 4:21 in the early morning of Sept. 23. It’s the designated time for this shifting of seasonal gears. It’s a date and time ― simple digits. However, it is many other little parts that make up the whole of the seasonal transformation called fall. I flopped aboard my boat in...
Loose Ends: Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?

By

Zoe Estrin-Grele

Sun, Oct 4

Category:

Columnists

Every tourist asks me the same questions in the same order. It goes like this: 1. Where are you from? 2. You live here? 3. All year long? People love the idea of living on Block Island. To them, it seems like the magical place it is in the summer time, all sunshine and beach days, a constant...
Fishing Report: Warm water means fish go deeper

By

Sol Schwartz

Sun, Oct 4

Category:

Fishing Report

It’s the beginning of October and the weather is amazing on Block Island! There’s still plenty of beach time left in the season and, with the smaller crowds, it’s a perfect place to be. However, this wonderful weather isn’t helping the striped bass much, especially off the beach. In order for the...
Grounded Autumn

By

Martha Ball

Sun, Oct 4

Category:

Island Notes

It is fall, it is the season my dog, Autumn, came to live with me, just over two years ago. She has gone back to the chair she eschewed the summer long, my chair, that is, not one of the others in the living room I would gladly cover with an old sheet were she to favor it. She pretends not to see...
Patriots face unknown Jaguars

By

Cassius Shuman

Fri, Sep 25

Category:

Columnists

"There's no crying in baseball," said Tom Hanks’s character Jimmy Dugan in the popular movie A League of Their Own. Too bad Hanks's character didn't make that spirited declaration about football. He could very well be espousing that refrain to the coaches of the teams that the New England Patriots...
The Gardening Report: Juice into jelly (or popsicles)

By

Renee Meyer

Fri, Sep 25

Category:

Gardening Report

It’s hard to ignore the abundance of fruit on Block Island this year. The old apple trees in the yard — survivors of the Hurricane of ’38 — are all but groaning with the weight of their fruit bending the branches towards the ground. Pears are plentiful, and Concord grapes are still, as of this...
Exotics among us

By

Capt. Chris Willi and Hank Hewitt

Fri, Sep 25

Category:

Fishing Report

To start this week’s fishing report, the pelagics — being the false albacore and bonito — are still running through the pond and at the Coast Guard Station. The striper bite from the shore still remains light, but fish are still being caught from the east beaches and southeast corner. The heavy...
Smoke on the Water...

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Sep 25

Category:

Island Notes

It is the 21st of September, the day we grew up thinking of as the first of fall; this year the equinox does not come until early morning of the 23rd. There will still be an hour more of visible than actual daylight, a standard which holds true across the year. It is such both in summer when the...
Patriots face potential trap game

By

Cassius Shuman

Fri, Sep 18

Category:

Columnists

This week’s Patriots game presents some challenges indicative of a trap game. There is a caveat: I know that AFC East games are not usually considered trap games, but since the Patriots are coming off of an emotional win after beating the Steelers on Thursday Night Football, the potential is there...
Fishing Report: Bonito and albies, with a splash of bass

By

Sol Schwartz

Fri, Sep 18

Category:

Inactive Columns

Everyone knows September and October are the best months on Block Island. That only improves because of the smaller crowds and cooler weather. This last week has proven that; if you head out there with a fishing pole, you’re probably going to catch something. From boat, the fish seem to be mostly...
Sailboats, a fine obsession

By

J. V. Houlihan, Jr.

Fri, Sep 18

Category:

The Ferry Dock Scribbler

“If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. A small boat is not only beautiful; it is seductive and full of strange promise and a hint of trouble.” — E.B. White While sailing earlier this summer, the clew at the foot of...
September Sojourn

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Sep 18

Category:

Island Notes

The cousins and their families are walking out to the North Light. My pace is not what it used to be I tell them and time is at a premium, I will stay behind; it is not until I look out along the beach that I realize they, too, have grown older. But I remain in the parking lot, looking at the big...
Fishing Report: Albie back

By

Hank Hewitt and Capt. Chris Willi

Fri, Sep 11

Category:

Fishing Report

We’re pleased to open up this week’s shore fishing report with confirmed first-hand sightings and hookups to false albacore (aka little tunny) and bonito. These pelagic terminators have made their annual appearance right on time and the Coast Guard Channel is the best place to cast for these drag-...
Summertime Dream

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Sep 11

Category:

Island Notes

It has been the longest and the shortest summer of my life. It is warm, summer warm, too warm for after Labor Day when school starts but every conversation is of all the other years it has been too warm, another anomaly of the season that is not. But my yard looks like fall, the tiny apples on the...
Incoming!

By

J. V. Houlihan, Jr.

Fri, Sep 4

Category:

The Ferry Dock Scribbler

We’re inundated on a daily basis with incoming information. Our gadgets have taken over both lobes of our brains with a relentless barrage of facts, figures and scads of minutiae. Once we get Facebooking or tweeting and texting and emailing, it is a wonder that we can think in a coherent manner. It...
Fishing Report: The Night Bite

By

Sol Schwartz

Fri, Sep 4

Category:

Fishing Report

It’s the beginning of September, and Block Island’s water temperatures have peaked. This means several things for fishing. The elusive monster striped bass typically move into deeper water, especially during the day. Bonito and false albacore (albies) start showing themselves at the Coast Guard...
For Denice

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Sep 4

Category:

Island Notes

Labor Day is as late as it can be this year, and the town feels September-quiet in the week preceding the holiday. The humid heat is back with a vengeance much like the cancer that returned last year and finally, yesterday, took my cousin Denice's life. The world conspires in odd ways. Today came...
Loose Ends: How Not to Make Friends

By

Zoe Estrin-Grele

Fri, Aug 28

Category:

Columnists

I am really bad at making friends. This wasn't always the case. For most of my life, developing a large posse of nerd pals was almost second nature. Even though I moved a lot, picking up new ones was never a big deal. It's not difficult when you live with, study with, and often work with the same...
Hope

By

J.V. Houlihan, Jr.

Fri, Aug 28

Category:

Columnists

Rhode Island’s state flag has the word “Hope,” beneath an anchor and surrounded by stars. This is a word used often and in many contexts. It is a word that when used as a noun has many synonyms: goals, desires, expectations, plans, et al. As a verb it means to want, to expect and to look for—...
Another August's end

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Aug 28

Category:

Island Notes

Years ago, I thought every year was so special, that every August was unique. Then I scrolled back through columns I had written other years at the same time and found “August Muggies” the year it was so damp the gaps between the planks in the old table in the editor's house briefly lessened and a...
Late summer fishing starts

By

Sol Schwartz

Fri, Aug 21

Category:

Fishing Report

Late summer fishing on Block Island is a time for changes. Striped bass fishing begins its lull before the fall and we start looking out for other species to show up. When our waters reach their warmest, the bigger stripers typically stay in deeper waters until the temperature drops near the shore...
Flashing Green

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Aug 21

Category:

Island Notes

T he trees at the west end of Chapel Street are burnished, as is the great horse chestnut at the old Town Center. Yet it came as a surprise that the maple at the corner of my yard was not full and lush; only in a photo did I notice sky showing through its branches. Perhaps I do not notice it when...

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