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When I was in the second or third grade, my fellow students and I were at a crossroads and we had to make the daunting leap onto the road toward

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Om quack, or be the duck

After doing the anchor drill in the quiet part of the pond, Dodge sat in the cockpit of Ithaca as the boat settled into a slow port-to-starboard rhythm as the

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Ernie D.: For the love of the game

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. — Aristotle

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Lighthouses

On this point of land stands a lonely guide in this age of automation, making whitecaps glow, the ocean’s foe, the merchant mariner’s salvation; the new age is here they’ve

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Sailors | Columnists | blockislandtimes.com

I n 1971, while sitting at the bar in The Oar while my laundry was drying below the saloon, I saw a 136-foot schooner sailing into New Harbor. She was

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Back in the late ‘80s, I had my acting class at Narragansett High School perform a series of monologues at a cable studio in Westerly. I assigned the class their

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The memory shack

I f you’ve been going to Block Island for the past few decades, you perhaps may have a file in your memory bank that contains the pictured car shack at

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained

The idea regarding not gaining anything if we’re not willing to take a risk can be traced back to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” in the late 1300s. It’s a pretty

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A very quiet harbor

After work on 1 October, I took our dog Annie for a walk around the Port of Galilee. My wife usually takes her for harbor walks during the day, and

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The purple flag

Over the decades of working for the ferry company I’ve witnessed how the arbitrary nature of weather can play havoc with people’s plans to head out to Block Island. Regardless

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