Hello from sunny California! We are here celebrating the life of my husband’s grandfather, Ted, who passed away a year ago just a few days after his 97th birthday. Ted lived on a large tract of...

That old phrase “love is in the air” never seemed truer than during a walk in the Chappy woods one day last week. My mom, Jan Pogue, was on a land bank trail by Poucha Pond when she...

The osprey have returned to their poles at Chappy point, Wasque and East Beach. Each pair has started rebuilding their nest, piling on new sticks and beach trash on top of the existing foundations...

Lots of news from our little island this week. The new Chappy cell-tower was installed last week on Sampson avenue. Because the approval process was so lengthy and cell technology is changing so...

The temperatures have been a bit milder this week with still afternoons and plenty of sunshine. As the light is now lingering later into the evening, spring feels imminent. Chappy has started to come...

It is school vacation this week and the Island is noticeably quiet. With many families away on off-Island adventures, Edgartown’s Main street was nearly empty late Sunday afternoon. Only a...

“This is the most beautiful place on Earth,” Edward Abbey writes in his opening line of Desert Solitaire. He continues: “There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries...

After many hours of traveling, my little one and I arrived home from visiting my mom in Mexico yesterday evening. My sister-in-law, Molly Peach Mayhew, gifted us a Cape Air flight from Boston, so we...

Last time I wrote to you, I was in the snowy White Mountains of New Hampshire. I am now in a very different climate and writing to you from the high desert of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. When my...

I am writing to you this week from the snowy White Mountains of New Hampshire where the landscape is a far cry from our Chappy flatlands. Mount Washington dominates the view from my in-laws living...