block island views

Distance visiting with Edie this spring.

Many of you faithful readers know how fraught the situation on Block Island has been this year.  I hear that things are settling down a bit now, which is good news for the volunteer rescue squad and the medical center people. An ordinary summer is exhausting enough that the island doctor typically doesn't last through many of them before burning out. This year there was quarantine, Covid-19 tracing and a huge number of traffic accidents, some of them fatal.
  Just imagine the island in the old days, with no medical care closer than Newport by fishing boat. My friend Edie Blane lived through it and describes those days in this video. Well worth checking out. And donating.