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June 2020
The Charcuterie Plate
June 2020
Putting together a meat and cheese board can be a fun way to start a meal or the perfect midday meal of its own. With a couple of ingredients, some wine and a back yard, you’ll feel like you are in Italy...
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June 2020
Chef Gabriel Frasca
Straight Wharf Restaurant is much like a ship. Walking through the dining room on a summer evening conjures the feeling of being on an austere ocean liner. People are dressed in fine...
read more“A Thousand Leagues of Blue”
June 2020
The captain is drunk. His mistress is on the ship. He is ferrying passengers from island to island in the South Pacific, not paying any attention to the whales he’s sailed thousands of miles to hunt.
...read moreThe Bones of History
June 2020
It was New Year’s Eve 1997. John Shea remembers it from the cry for help he heard coming from Codfish Park. A 46-foot, nearly 40-ton sperm whale had washed up, alive, on the beach. Two hours later, a group...
read moreThe Battle for the Bluff
June 2020
The 30-year battle with erosion on the Sconset Bluff has become more than about finding a workable and acceptable engineering solution to save the houses along Baxter Road from falling into the sea, as...
read moreLeast Terns: fickle and feisty
June 2020
A perfect summer day, with blue sky and bluer ocean, sun-sparkles glinting off the waves. The white sands are hot, but the breeze is cooling. Small white birds wheel over one particular spot above the...
read moreSowing the seeds of self-reliance
June 2020
People garden for many reasons, but one underlying motivation, especially in these coronavirus times, is self-reliance. Taking ownership of something as fundamental as our own nourishment can be a...
read moreThe Pandemic of 1918
June 2020
The epidemic hit the island like a thundering wave. Everybody knew what was happening on the mainland. The now-iconic photos were simply the news of the day then: New York City cops wearing surgical masks,...
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