Books & Ideas
It’s a testament to Tom Dresser’s storytelling gifts that a subject as big as whaling on the Vineyard can be told so well in only 150 pages.
In 1893, three Martha’s Vineyard women decided they would not go through another isolating Island winter.
What is important right now is that Mr. Weinstein is currently on his own literary journey.
The director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy launched the Summer Institute speaker series with a riveting talk...
In The Omega Principle Paul Greenberg explores so-called omega-3 fatty acids extracted from humble sea stock like Chesapeake menhaden.
Eat chocolate every day. Yup, you read that right. Every day.
The Federated Church will host a reading of Frederick Douglass’s powerful speech The Meaning of Fourth of July to the Negro.
Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. will take the stage at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown on Wednesday, July 11.
Normally viewers have to wait until midnight for Lawrence O’Donnell to get in his “last word.” But on Sunday in Oak Bluffs, he’ll be finished by noon...
The popular summer lecture series kicks off Thursday, July 5 at 7:30 p.m.
This year the author series, which runs from July 15 through August 19, will bring seven authors to the Chilmark Community Center to discuss their...
The opening photograph in West Tisbury resident Max Skjöldebrand’s book of photography A Tale of Two Theaters, shows the Strand Theatre in drabby...
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Arts Briefs
Outdoor writer Nelson Sigelman won a top award at the New England Outdoor Writers Association annual meeting April 14.
David McCullough has received a Christopher Award for The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For.
Phil Weinstein has become a regular presence each fall, teaching classes on the great authors, from Melville to Tolstoy, Faulkner and Joyce.
