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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...
Fishing Report: Anticipation of the speedsters

By

Hank Hewitt and Capt. Chris Willi

Fri, Aug 14

Category:

Fishing Report

This week’s report sees us firmly in a summer pattern. The Coast Guard Channel is producing a pick of porgies and short fluke for the light tackle anglers dragging squid strips and spearing across the bottom. There is a consistent bite of schoolie stripers, rolling through bait at first light until...
August

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Aug 14

Category:

Island Notes

In the midst of a beautiful summer day, I want back all the time I have spent on the phone trying to get Verizon service to be Verizon service. Forty-six minutes today with no resolution to the problem I called about on Saturday. Weirdly, it is not the internet — just the email. I think I should...
Setting the hook

By

J. V. Houlihan, Jr.

Fri, Aug 7

Category:

Columnists, The Ferry Dock Scribbler

I had a punitive writing assignment in the ninth grade. It was 1964. The deal was this, I either stayed after school and wrote what my teacher wanted or my folks were getting a phone call — not a good thing. Let’s just say that I wasn’t what you would call a good student — by any means — and school...
Tune in for tuna!

By

Sol Schwartz

Fri, Aug 7

Category:

Fishing Report

In the next few weeks, Block Island will see its highest water temperatures for the season. The warm water is definitely prime for baitfish, which in turn keeps the big fish around. Already for the beginning of August, we are seeing great catches from both boat and shore. One thing to keep in mind...
250 and Counting

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Aug 7

Category:

Island Notes

This year, the Harbor Church celebrates its 250th anniversary in October. “Gathered” is the word on the sign on the lawn of the current home of the congregation. Some place the date of origin to the earliest settlers meeting in the Bay Colony, seeking a different life in a place where they could...
Time for topwater

By

Capt. Chris Willi and Hank Hewitt

Fri, Jul 31

Category:

Fishing Report

This week’s report should be more aptly entitled a catching report, as the catching is solid for every avenue of angling. Most basically, and arguably the most fun for the family, is the huge volume of squid in the Great Salt Pond. They may be caught night and day; however, they are...
Sunday Night Still

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Jul 31

Category:

Island Notes

S unday night and the Harbor Church is strangely still. Even for this building in summer, the activity of the past week was manic. In addition to our regular services and programs, scheduled meetings of outside groups, twice-weekly bridge gatherings and dinners for international students, we had...
Bob Dylan and Newport: 50 years on

By

J. V. Houlihan Jr.

Fri, Jul 24

Category:

The Ferry Dock Scribbler

The Newport Folk Festival starts on Friday, July 24 and runs through the weekend, marking a half century since Bob Dylan performed his genre-challenging show. Fifty years ago Bob Dylan strapped on an electric Fender guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, and tore into his songs —...
Eat. Sleep. Fish.

By

Sol Schwartz

Fri, Jul 24

Category:

Fishing Report

It’s business as usual on Block Island. The boats keep bringing in huge bass as the shore fishermen chase the fish around all the beaches. The warm temperatures this past week have definitely influenced the baitfish, which in turn has made fishing productive. From boat, Matt King of Hula Charters...
All Too Possible

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Jul 24

Category:

Island Notes

Y esterday it was hot. The air, I think at first, was a heavy, sodden blanket then realize all that sun could not have gotten though such a cover. I wonder if even out here in the middle of the ocean we are feeling the impacts of the pollution that causes Ozone Alerts to be issued in the cities on...
Baling twine

By

Martha Ball

Fri, Jul 17

Category:

Island Notes

T his morning I looked out to the east and had a strange flash of misplaced memory, sheep on my neighbor’s bank lot, between the big pond behind my house and the ocean. Once they were in those meadows, big wooly beasts sheared in the summertime, probably just as they were about to keel over in the...
Big bottom dwellers

By

Capt. Chris Willi and Hank Hewitt

Fri, Jul 17

Category:

Fishing Report

A mixed-bag species report highlights this week’s word from the land-based fishing scene. Large scup (porgies) have moved into casting range from the beach, all around the island. Squid and live minnows are accounting for their fair share of scup and fluke at the Coast Guard Channel. Most notably...
Gardening Times

By

Fred Nelson

Sat, Jul 11

Category:

Gardening Times

Here we are well into the month of July, and all that I have harvested from my vegetable garden is some lettuce that I had transplanted. Returning home in early May is a bit late for my normal gardening schedule. However, one must make do what one has to work with. One frustrating operation...
Tuppence

By

J. V. Houlihan, Jr.

Fri, Jul 10

Category:

The Ferry Dock Scribbler

A month ago I was making a donation to a great organization when I stumbled upon a group on Facebook that helps kids in foster families hopefully get placed in a loving and nurturing home. Our donation will send a kid to camp for a week this summer in upstate New York. This camp was founded by two...

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