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West Tisbury: Trips off-Island, holiday decorations, town party, jazz concert, and Circuit Arts

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The weather has stayed mild most of the past week, our lovely long temperate autumn that makes up for our endlessly cool springs. Oddly,...

West Tisbury: Ukulele Jam, author talks, town potluck, Christmas Faire, and the night sky

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Thanksgiving is over. November almost is, too. Tomorrow will be Dec. 1. Station 1 put up their lights after a radio check this morning. Middletown...

West Tisbury: Pop-up book sale, Up-Island Council on Aging trips, and Planning Board

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We have had a beautiful few days, cold enough for morning frosts, then sunny and clear during the days, cold again once the sun...

West Tisbury: Corn pudding time

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A rimy haze coated our roofs and lawn this morning. There had been a few chilly mornings, but this was a real frost, and...

West Tisbury: Farmer’s Market, turkey dinner, town visioning workshop, and Charlie Parton

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When my brother, Andy, called me Tuesday morning to wish me a happy birthday, he said it was snowing in Redding. Just a few...

West Tisbury: Autumn memories, fire department, Barn Raisers Ball, and Music Street Musicians

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It was warm all week, in the 70s, then back into the 50s for the weekend. Partly sunny, partly gray. Yellow and browns predominate,...

West Tisbury: Bob Fischer, Green House Project, Gayle Gardens, and Halloween party

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“Howdy, Neighbor,” was Bob Fischer’s customary greeting, whether he had walked up the path through the woods between our houses, driven down our driveway...

West Tisbury: Autumn colors, Harvest Festival, Seed Library, book clubs, and drawing group

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It looks like an abstract expressionist painting outside my windows. The burning bush I planted 40 years ago, before they were discouraged as invasive,...

Works in progress

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Driving up the steep driveway to the house where Barney Zeitz lives and makes art feels like entering a world apart. The path leading...

West Tisbury: Governance Task Force, library’s exhibit, Duo Amie concert, and Israel

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Saturday was rainy again, drenching at times, then misty soft. It’s supposed to get sunny with temperatures in the 50s and low 60s for...

West Tisbury: Library exhibit, piano concert, photography book, and ‘Pinkletink the Froggie’

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Another gray, rainy weekend, the third in a row. It still feels heavy and sticky outside, thankfully not as hot, but where are the...

West Tisbury: Family heirlooms, beach cleanup, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass,’ and author talk

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It feels quieter since the hurricane-that-wasn’t. It’s officially fall, too. It may be all in my mind, but the change of seasons always feels...

Sacred memories

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Baruch atah adonai elohenu melech ha’olam asher kidshanu bemitzvotav vitzivanu lehadlik ner shel (shabbat ve) yom tov. Blessed art thou, O Lord Our God, King...

West Tisbury: Signs of autumn, Council on Aging, Falls Prevention Month, and Fossil Day

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The wind has been blowing all day. I can feel it at my back as I sit on my sofa, writing, with the windows...

West Tisbury: Old town dump, ‘Becoming Gandhi,’ Human Recovery Library, and Paul Doherty

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It feels like we are back in time to July, and summer’s hot, humid days and nights. What a miserable week this has been....

West Tisbury: Beloved cat, Climate Book Club, lobster picnic, and emergency preparedness

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I have already noticed the light changing. The sky starts to quiet by 6 and, if Mike gets home closer to 7, I will...

Vineyard summers gone by

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“The very act of drawing made me participate in the life around me.” So said Adolf Dehn, draftsman, lithographer, and watercolorist. A collection of his...

West Tisbury: Cherry tree, ‘Nancy’ cartoon, autism book, rock painting, and bubble party

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Longtime readers of this column may recall references to the ‘Hally Jolivette’ cherry tree that has bloomed in my yard for many years. I...

Dining alfresco at Salvatore’s

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When I was a young art student in New York City, I followed Gael Greene’s restaurant reviews in New York magazine with an avidness...

West Tisbury: Nighttime sky, Agricultural Fair, author talks, and Climate Book Club

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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted...