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Island Notes
Ghosts of coffee hours past, part II
Martha Ball
Wed, Jul 13
Category:
Island Notes
I left off last week on the verge of realizing, last spring, that the Harbor Church was in coffee-maker crisis. For the uninitiated, it need be understood, this treatise is about things that should be simple: not ornate samovars or complicated cappuccino machines, just plain 40-cup percolators. The...
Ghosts of coffee hours past, part I
Martha Ball
Thu, Jul 7
Category:
Island Notes
It began with Tercentenary Punch. It will end there. Roll Call at the Harbor Baptist Church is widely known as a harvest dinner. It has been a touchstone of the calendar for over a century. Today, still, there is the calling of the roll of members, not as it was in the beginning as a part of a day...
The First Full Day of Summer
Martha Ball
Wed, Jun 29
Category:
Island Notes
The solstice came on a fair wind, the softest of breezes from the southwest. The first full day of summer brought rain and sun and rain, again. The temperature wavered between cool and warm, comfortable and on the edge of humid. It was never truly hot and the pavement did not billow steam as it can...
Red Moon for New England
Martha Ball
Sat, Jun 18
Category:
Island Notes
The moon is a great silver disc — showing just a bit of a face — hanging in the eastern sky. I think it looks slightly misshapen but I think it is less a very sharp eye and more the knowledge that it was technically full a few hours ago, during the daylight of early afternoon, that makes it so...
Mute lightning
Martha Ball
Thu, Jun 2
Category:
Island Notes
This morning I saw a snapper ambling up the lane, moving, as they do, with an odd rolling gait. It wasn’t a large turtle, but it had a huge head, stretching out over the shorn grass. They appear every now and then, and I wonder where they are headed — it is a fair distance to a pond that will last...
Groundhog Retreat
Martha
Thu, May 19
Category:
Island Notes
The sun is shining. It poured last night, it rained this morning, there is more rain forecast for later today and for tomorrow and the day following as well. The ground was dry, the roads were dusty, the little vernal ponds almost summer dry. We needed the rain, we tell each other. All these days...
Independence Day
Martha Ball
Thu, May 5
Category:
Island Notes
It is May Fourth and it is my duty to remind all that this date is Rhode Island Independence Day. The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the smallest state with the longest name, was also the first of the colonies to declare independence from the crown as well as the last to ratify...
Next Week It Will Be May
Martha Ball
Tue, May 3
Category:
Island Notes
It wasn’t before there were houses, simply before there were so many, 1970 when we were closer than we realized to the encroaching world. There were a few places where fields were burned in late winter and grew brightly green in the spring. The walls around them were clearer than even the most...
Nod to Nature
Martha Ball
Thu, Apr 28
Category:
Island Notes
At the top of the seventh the Red Sox are ahead. A lot can go wrong between now and the end of the game. They are not doing as badly as I imagined, they’ve won 5 games and have lost 11. Amazingly, they are not at the bottom, the rock bottom, of the standings, inched out by the Mets who stand at 5-...
Muskrats & Mallards
Martha Ball
Fri, Apr 22
Category:
Island Notes
My mother put on the Today show school mornings; we did not have to leave the house until the local news and weather brief that came on at 8:25 had concluded. One day in April 1961 they were broadcasting not from New York but from South Carolina. A re-enactment of the firing on Fort Sumter had...
You can't go wrong when . . .
Martha
Thu, Apr 14
Category:
Island Notes
You head for the steeple. Sage advice, it was, from my cousin the mariner, he still so belonging to the world of deepwater he will not park close to the supermarket door. He acknowledges only that his wife has gently questioned the rationale of this “anchoring out” hold-over from his sea-faring...
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