The subject of West Tisbury resident Marc Favreau’s latest book for young adult readers is the surprise attack launched by Japan on the US Naval base...
“Black as ink” / A simile just right / Yet as a metaphor, / “Inkwell” takes flight / More than a beach / On the Vineyard’s shore / This enduring icon...
Islander idly rumbles in her slip calmly churning in the dying light
Good afternoon my fellow Vineyarders and associated wash-a-shores. Thank you all for being here today.
I had the great privilege of being Ron Rappaport’s law partner for over 25 years. Ron’s passing is a great loss for his family, the Island community...
As a conservation biologist on the Island for the past 30 years, I have become increasingly concerned about the future of our common pond turtles.
I have participated in the Cross-Island Hike at least 15 times, but at 77 years old, at the end of each year’s hike I mutter: “This will be my last...
Like most parents, we thought this day might never come. On June 9 our youngest child will graduate from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
I joined a day trip run by the West Tisbury Congregational church to visit Penikese Island, an ancestral hunting land of the Wampanoag, 45 minutes by...
Dear Mom and Dad, things are going great and we have made some strides here on the Island. Here at my place we have completed a number of projects...
I never met Rez Williams, the revered Vineyard artist who died in February. Nevertheless, he was a kind of hero for me, an artist rooted in a place...
Twenty years ago on May 17, joyous Massachusetts gay and lesbian couples began marrying shortly after midnight.

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