It was a particularly still evening at Wasque last night. A very low tide revealed a sandbar at the end of Washque Avenue, reshaping the familiar landscape into something new as shellfisherman dug...

Halloween is approaching. I hope you are pulling out your sewing kits and hot glue guns and making some creative costumes. I ran into Woody Filley and Joanne Gosser at the fall farmer’s market...

I am writing this column to you while on a family vacation in New Mexico, within a landscape that could not be more different than our own on Chappaquiddick. The desert sky is so immense, a boundless...

The light on the Pimpneymouse Farm field early this morning was, quite simply, breathtaking. It was a gold that only appears in these shorter days with cooler air; a gold that is the essence of fall...

My family and I were in Vermont for a wedding this weekend and it seems that fall settled into Chappaquiddick while we were away. The cool temperatures from up north followed us home, a nighttime...

The water at East Beach was so clear over the weekend. Usually, the visibility is obscured by some seaweed or silt, but this weekend, the sandy ocean bottom, all sifted into ridges, could be clearly...

My favorite week of the summer has arrived: fair week! Having grown up in Atlanta, I missed out on a childhood of attending small-town agricultural fairs, so when we arrived on-Island 15 years ago,...

If you have lived on Chappy for any amount of time, you know we are an island of unique and variable mail and package delivery. Until recently, all of our UPS packages were delivered and distributed...

The other night, my husband and I were both awakened by a loud screech owl calling out in the early hours before dawn. She must have been perched on the oak just outside our bedroom window because...

Hello everyone, Lily here. I will be sharing this column with Peter for awhile; he and I will trade off writing it from week-to-week. I am pleased as well as a bit nervous to be taking on some of the...