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Letters from the House

A note, now and then. What’s cooking, where we’ve been, what we found, and who’s coming for dinner.

Letters come by Substack. You’ll finish signing up there.

Now and then, never too often. Leave whenever you like.

The latest letter · October 25

Saltwater Notes, Dispatch No. 1

There is something about arriving on Harbour Island that makes everybody happy.

Everybody is grinning from ear to ear. Even the people who were looking miserable in the airport ten minutes earlier.

There are no traffic lights on Harbour Island, hardly any cars, and absolutely no reason to wear a watch.

Lucy

Read the whole letter · Enclosed: the Thanksgiving Almanac

Now and then, a letter also brings

A few things first

  • The Thanksgiving plannerThe whole plan, to print or keep on your phone.
  • The key to the CabinetNovember 17, ten days before it opens to everyone.
  • Stories that only go out by letterThe ones that are a little too personal for the Almanac.
  • The first look at new thingsBefore they’re in the Cabinet, and sometimes before they’re finished.
  • Now and then, an invitationA dinner, a morning at a flea market, a pizza night in the garden.