Island Notes News Today

It seems we always have a storm in late January. Today, I can easily flip back through photos on my phone to confirm that, yes, one year it was cloudy,

It is Boxing Day and it is foggy and mild, weather that has impacted other parts of the country, delaying plane flights and making highway travel more difficult. At first,

By 1965, the genie of sexual liberation had begun to pop out of the bottle. On the Isle of Wight, efforts were made to put the cork back in.

Last week and the week before I went to the mainland. The photo is from last week and is here because I love it. And I somehow managed to get

This morning the sound of surf rolled up from the east beach, through the open east window, not waking me as much as working its way into my consciousness, lifting

Tonight the moon rose out of the ocean, a great orange ball, the first of two full moons this August. I couldn’t find it at first, it was too near

Last winter, when some of us at the Historical Society started talking about a summer exhibit focusing on the 1950s and 1960s on Block Island, every conversation included some variation

It seemed the cooler part of spring lingered this year, then, suddenly, we were plunged into the hot humidity of August.

This evening I came home to an on-time as promised delivery, confirming my faith in one on-line company: Chewy.

This afternoon, a qualified term if ever there was one, so definitive when we were children, ending at six o’clock with supper, the prelude to the nightly news and homework,