Hermine Hull
West Tisbury: Santa will be at Station II, our town party, and Minnesingers perform
I woke up during the night, and looking out at the sky, I was amazed at how brightly the stars shone. They appeared larger,...
West Tisbury: Friendsgiving luncheon, and corn pudding recipe
It was cold this morning and the sky was a flat gray. It looked and felt like snow. The news showed a reporter standing...
West Tisbury: Island Made Holidays, orchids and amaryllis, and Nelson the cat
Typical New England weather gave us another week of never knowing if it would be warm or cold when we opened the door in...
West Tisbury: Friendsgiving, and National Family Caregivers Month
I’m wearing shorts as I sit here writing this week’s column. The temperature is in the 70s. Hot. We still have our windows and...
West Tisbury: Ticks have been horrible, and Foc’s’le Locker bookstore
November is the best month of the year. My birthday and Thanksgiving are both in November. The weather is usually still pleasantly warm and...
West Tisbury: Almost Halloween, and costume party
It’s almost Halloween. The air smells like fall, that mix of dry and dust and rotting leaves. My memories of childhood Halloweens have me...
West Tisbury: Wee Fairie Village, and an interesting dinner party
I don’t know what the weather was like on the Island. I was off-Island, a world away in Old Saybrook, Conn., spending the whole...
West Tisbury: Howes House focus groups, and Crop Walk
What a wild week of weather. Rainy, raw, windy days followed by days that felt like summer redux. All you can do is wear...
West Tisbury: Bulb Planting Day, jazz concert, and Milton Mazer
I can’t complain about any lack of rain. Reality will be digging in the garden and finding the soil moist and crumbly a ways...
West Tisbury: New knitting group
Windy and cool, lovely weather. When I went out the other day, everyone was wearing sweaters and scarves. We have shut our doors the...
West Tisbury: Living history
I am sad to begin this week’s column with an announcement of the death of our friend, Mark Weiner. Mark and his wife, Michiko,...
West Tisbury: William Blakesly art exhibits
It’s been a damp week, no real rain, just an overcast wetness like living inside a cloud. It’s still dry as you dig into...
West Tisbury: Memories new and old
Because of Labor Day, we have an early deadline for our columns, so I can’t give much of a report on the weather, as...
West Tisbury: Woods sigh in relief
While not exactly “a song of praise or triumph,” as my Oxford English Dictionary defines it, I begin this column with a paean to...
West Tisbury: Busy summer weekend
I hadn’t planned on writing a column this week, as I intended to go to my 55th Ridgefield High School class of 1967 reunion....
West Tisbury: Agricultural Fair
Two big events on August 18. My darling Iyla will turn 6. Her party is scheduled for early in the day, so everyone can...
West Tisbury: The thirst of the land
Despite remaining gray for most of the day last Monday, our rainfall amounted to barely a drop-and-a-half. I went out the next morning and...
West Tisbury: Parsonage Pond
The first white mallow flowers have appeared among the greenery around Parsonage Pond. The ever-changing arrangements of shapes and colors at Parsonage, even though...
West Tisbury: Hot, dry days and nights
My husband has left me. Bad enough if it were for another woman, but I have been abandoned for a bright red Troy-Bilt lawn...
West Tisbury: Midsummer weather
The air is redolent of freshly cut lawns and hayfields. It must have been a good haying, as we have had no rain for...