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Monthly Archives: October 2012

Sandy teh Superstorm, Harbingers and Makeready, October 27th, 2012

October 31, 2012by tompostpile Leave a comment

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 […]

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Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Storm Sandy

Trip to the No’thard. Number Five: from Blue to Dirt to Maple.

October 21, 2012by tompostpile 1 Comment

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, […]

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Essay, photograph, Travel, Vermont

Trip to the No’thard, Part the Fourth, On Blue Highways.

October 20, 2012by tompostpile Leave a comment

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 […]

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Essay, photograph, Travel, Vermont

Part the Third: Creatures of the No’thard and No’thwestard

October 20, 2012by tompostpile 1 Comment

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, […]

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Essay, photograph, Travel, Vermont

The Islanders Take a Trip to the No’thard, Part the Second, from Zakim to Avenger.

October 19, 2012by tompostpile Leave a comment

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. […]

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Essay, photograph, Travel

The Islanders Take a Trip to the No’thard, Part the First

October 18, 2012by tompostpile 1 Comment

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, […]

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Essay, photograph, Travel

Angles on the WHMV&NSSA (The Vineyard Ferry)

October 17, 2012by tompostpile 1 Comment

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 […]

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Essay, Martha's Vineyard, photograph

Crows at Church

October 16, 2012by tompostpile 1 Comment

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 […]

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Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph

Maynard Silva’s Buses: RIP

October 15, 2012by tompostpile 4 Comments

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 […]

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Art, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, photograph

Pluralism’s Ort

October 14, 2012by tompostpile Leave a comment

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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