I was one of three boys growing up. We ate a lot of meat, compared scars, had pushup contests and wrestled competitively.

The youngest member of the Greater Boston film press corps, I got to spend a couple hours with Hitchcock aboard a theatre owner’s yacht.

Many people assume that litigation is the only way to resolve a difficult dispute. But there is another, often better alternative — mediation.

There is neither time nor incentive to hike the beaches in summer, when mild weather and low tidal courses leave the sands undisturbed for weeks.

Up at first light, three Vineyard birders met at Martha’s Vineyard Airport. Flip Harrington, Lanny McDowell and I were bound for Nantucket.

Looking back at 2015, here are a selection of nature writings throughout the year from the Gazette.

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Letters to the Editor

I live on an Island that will be significantly impacted by sea level rise and extreme weather as a result of climate change.

I second Paul Doherty’s motion re: nips.

I am writing about an issue that I can no longer stay silent about: plastic nip bottles.

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