Journey of a Book
The belles of the bells
A guest blog by Tom Dunlop, author of the upcoming The Chappy Ferry Book: How enchanted a project is this book on the Chappy ferry turning out to be? A few days back, I went down to the ferry house on the Edgartown side of the harbor to meet my friend Margaret, who has lived [...]
Chappy Ferry book: Roving gangs of boys
With news coming across the harbor that a sheep on Chappaquiddick had just given birth to a rabbit-hipped, ferret-snouted rat-lamb one otherwise unremarkable spring morning, you might have pardoned Edgartown residents if they had convened a quick special town meeting in April 1885 and decided they no longer needed a ferry to reach such a [...]
A new species discovered?
Guest blogger Tom Dunlop (shown here) continues his report on his findings for the as-yet unnamed Chappy Ferry book. Some 4,400 copies of the Vineyard Gazette later, I’m putting that lifetime guarantee from my Lasik surgeon to something of a test. As I close in on the end of my search, I pretty sure I’ve [...]
Naming of a book
What’s in a name? Reader David Corriveau made a comment that included the suggestion of a name for The Chappy Ferry book. Tom and I have knocked around a few ideas on this one, but nothing wonderful has emerged from our own great minds. So I thought I’d open it up to you. If you [...]
Scrolling through history
Chappaquiddick, the little island next door to the vineyard, is a captivating place. It’s quirky, sometimes downright strange in fact. People who haven’t been here, and who arrived by the big ferry that brings them from the mainland, are sometimes stunned by the idea they’d have to take ANOTHER ferry to get to this [...]
Will it be On-Time?
Writers and photographers go through three distinctive phases when they’re working on a book project. There’s the “thinking about” stage, when everything seems possible. There’s plenty of time to do the project. Reality hasn’t interfered with the reporting. Smiles all around from the clients to the interview subjects. [...]