The Creative Current
Brenda Horrigan, T. Elizabeth Bell, Jan Brogan, Anne Manning, Kate AltmanInspired by the beauty, challenges & historically creative vibe of Martha’s Vineyard. Sharing lessons learned on staying creative & sane on-island and off.
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A sweet family visit
Vineyard Haven is my home, though I’m not from here. I will forever be a washashore, but I love this island. Still, I miss my family. For years I’ve imagined introducing Martha’s Vineyard to them, but they live far away, and getting here is...
HIPPIES! "They're dirty," "they're lazy," they're…our friends and neighbors?
Stage actress Katharine Cornell for decades was an active part of the community of Tisbury, here on Martha’s Vineyard.
One of her many gifts to her adopted home was to make a film in 1971 called “This Is Our Island.” I’m now going through...
Aspiring to Eccentricity
The other day, my phone’s lock screen, set to scroll through my tens of thousands of digital photographs, decided to display Spam Cat. Spam Cat, as the name implies, was a cat carved out of a brick of Spam. I cannot recall why I carved Spam...
Fueling your brain with the arts
Georges Seurat’s A Sunday On La Grande Jatte
Often, when I’d get stalled writing a chapter in my book about the nineteenth-century women who went whaling with their husbands, I’d listen to old sea shanties I found online. And before I sta...
Spring Cleaning, Remembered
It’s spring, and although the buds are still barely visible on the new shrubs and trees in my backyard, all around town there are daffodils and forsythia to herald the new season. As I look forward to brighter days, I am remembering back to...
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All my posts are at The Creative Current, where I join 3 other writers and designers to draw on the historically creative vibe of Martha's Vineyard. Please check it out! https://thecreativecurrent.substack.com/
T. ELIZABETH BELL swapped writing legal memos for crafting sea-breezy, toes-in-the-sand novels (Goats in the Time of Love, Counting Chickens, and her newest, Sheepish) inspired by her love of Martha’s Vineyard.
Journalist, novelist,instructer, evolving poet and author of The Combat Zone. Find me at The Creative Current on substack
You can also find me with some friends at The Creative Current.
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