Tag: Nantucket Island

Nantucket Essays

Hope Dies in March on Nantucket

•   by Robert P. Barsanti   •   After the storm, we sat outside at the brewery.  Cribbage was being played, the dogs were scampering and the sky had more rain in it.  Heavy waves ground up the south shore and the overcast skittered. “He doesn’t talk to me.” “Why is that?” […]

Nantucket Essays

Middle-Aged Valentine

•   by Robert P. Barsanti   •   By now, most of the snow has melted.  Frozen, dirty, icy clumps and ridges remain hidden deep in the brown thicket of dead vines and holly bushes out back, but the rest of the snow disappeared in a warm rain.  Even snow forts built […]