Every time Roberta Garris produces a quilt for one of our silent auctions, I can’t resist bidding on it. Her colorful tapestries now brighten several rooms in my house. When she announced that her “A Year in Patches” quilt was accepted into the prestigious International Quilt Festival in Houston this year, I knew I had to join her. Her “Weather” quilt features 365 squares, each square representing a day in a year in Greenport, its temperature and [...]

This year, the High Holidays truly felt like a time of reflection and repentance. As we celebrated Simchat Torah, the final event that concludes this month of observance, Israel conducted an historic airstrike against Iranian military targets on its own soil and named it “Days of Repentance” — an action that, in previous years, would have seemed an unimaginable undertaking, one with the potential to ignite a world war, possibly even a nuclear conflict. This [...]

In the midst of World War II, in his first speech as Prime Minister on May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill spoke about blood, toil, tears and sweat. His words, likely, were reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt’s words in 1897, when he said, “In the past, the nation has triumphed because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor of anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.” This [...]