Hermine Hull
West Tisbury: Autumn colors, Harvest Festival, Seed Library, book clubs, and drawing group
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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...
Adam Thompson’s work hangs at the Field Gallery
The first time I saw Adam Thompson’s paintings was when he showed some small landscapes at the Dragonfly Gallery in 2000. I remember being...
Leslie Baker’s ‘Saved Views’ at the West Tisbury library
“Saved Views: Past and Present” is the title Leslie Baker chose for her exhibition of landscape paintings at the West Tisbury library. They represent...
West Tisbury: From the Athens of the Island
Cooler temperatures this past week have made life truly idyllic in “the Athens of the Island,” as Polly Murphy often referred to West Tisbury....
West Tisbury: Books and more books
“Books, books, books!”
That’s how Iyla Bohan rhapsodizes over the piles of books and overfilled book shelves at my house when she visits and we...
West Tisbury: Daylilies, Library Book Sale, Davis House, author talks, and cyanobacteria
A lovely afternoon here. It feels a little cooler outside, not a lot, but enough to be noticeable. There is a bit of a...
West Tisbury: Fireflies, M.V. Rug Hookers, collage poetry, mushrooms, and Lizzie Stark book
Just as I was ready to complain about our lack of rain, the heavens opened. Thunder and lightning sent Abby pacing, and Mike spent...
West Tisbury: Swans and turtles, Human Library, family concert, book talks, and up-Island art
I know there are people who love the summer heat, who happily spend days at the beach baking themselves under a relentless sun. So...