Author Archives: Susanna J. Sturgis
Girl’s Night Out
In the heyday of Wintertide Coffeehouse, roughly the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Martha’s Vineyard was a stop on the singer-songwriter circuit. I got to hear some wonderful folk and blues performers without leaving home, and I got to hear them … Continue reading
Loss
I took this photo almost a year ago. The winged sumac was getting redder and bolder and I was looking forward to getting another shot. Monday morning I met a young guy with a brush cutter at just this spot. … Continue reading
Early Fall Color
Inspired by Farmer Tom of Wishetwurra Farm (up the road from me apiece in West Tisbury), I’ve been packing my little point-and-shoot whenever Travvy and I go out. Fall in New England raises expectations high. We’re famous for our fall … Continue reading
September License Plate Report
No news is not exactly good news, but it’s all I’ve got. Nothing new for September. A few relatively rare plates staged repeat appearances, like Louisiana and Kentucky, and one morning in West Tisbury center I got all excited by … Continue reading
Cider Sunday
Leominster, Massachusetts, proclaim the signs on the interstate, is PIONEER PLASTICS CITY and BIRTHPLACE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED. How could anyone not love that juxtaposition? Johnny Appleseed, né John Chapman, didn’t just plant seeds. He started apple-tree nurseries and supervised them … Continue reading
Books Afoot
So last May, totally out of the blue, I get an email. I’m writing to ask if you might be interested and able to meet with a group of readers who will have read your novel, The Mud of the … Continue reading
Unstuck
Thursday I gave Malvina Forester a much-needed bath. Her color hides mud streaks and dirt well, but there are limits. So, do you notice anything different? Here’s a hint: Yeah, you got it: I took it off. We put up … Continue reading
Dangerous
Everything I learn about how the wide world works gives me insight into how the little world I live in works, and everything I learn about my little world gives me insight into how the wide world works. But I … Continue reading
Vineyard Exceptional
In 1985, when I moved to Martha’s Vineyard from the women’s community of Washington, D.C., I was expecting differences. Differences I found, you bet, but also surprising similarities. People in both places, for instance, were convinced they were special by … Continue reading
Rockin’ Jerusalem
I’ve blogged about Jim Thomas’s Spirituals Choir, in which I sing, a couple of times. See especially “Singing for Our Lives,” from July 2012, and “Sing All the Way,” from July of this year. This past weekend we sang at … Continue reading
From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . . 