Sandy teh Superstorm, Harbingers and Makeready, October 27th, 2012
The tompostpile has been busy, of late, dealing and coping with Sandy and its aftermath. We never finished with Vermont, and now there’s a whole other pile of material for […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Trip to the No’thard. Number Five: from Blue to Dirt to Maple.
We set out on a rainy morning, in search of honey, dirt, and maple. Mists rise in valleys, over rivers and fields, and float into the mountaintops. Driveways and yards, […]
Trip to the No’thard, Part the Fourth, On Blue Highways.
The Islanders had promised themselves some shunpiking. So after leaving Burlington, they drove north a while, before taking a blue highway zigzag southeast, for their return trip to Montpelier. One […]
Part the Third: Creatures of the No’thard and No’thwestard
We arrived at Montpelier, the small city with the golden dome. It’s really nice to see a capitol dome set against a treeclad mountain slope. Montpelier is a really, really, […]
The Islanders Take a Trip to the No’thard, Part the Second, from Zakim to Avenger.
Our speed did not taper off after we crossed the Zakim Bridge. But, TAPER did appear on a random to-the-side-of-the-road photo. The plants against the sound barrier wall looked interesting. […]
The Islanders Take a Trip to the No’thard, Part the First
The Island People took the ferry, and went Off-Island. There are yet more words we use to describe this traveling other places. We go Away. We go to the Mainland, […]
Angles on the WHMV&NSSA (The Vineyard Ferry)
There’s plenty to see, on and around the ferries that daily cross Vineyard Sound, shuttling from Woods Hole to the Island. The SSA is a construction of angles. There’s not […]
Crows at Church
I walked by the Catholic Church in Vineyard Haven the other morning. Crows seem to favor this part of Vineyard Haven. You often seen them here, in the air. Crows are […]
Maynard Silva’s Buses: RIP
During the “summer” season, the ferries go back and forth to not only Vineyard Haven, but to Oak Bluffs. If you park your car in Vineyard Haven, a summer risk […]
Pluralism’s Ort
A short rant. Botheracious, it is, that so many people seem to think that to make the singular plural you have to add an apostrophe. Where does this conceit come […]
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