Not long ago I spent a few days sorting through a large box which had resided in the attic for the last quarter century, since I became a Vineyard washashore in 1997.

Dogs will not be allowed on Lambert’s Cove Beach for the remainder of the pandemic, the West Tisbury board of health announced Friday.

Susan Wilson’s new novel, Two Good Dogs, follows more developments in the life of Adam March and his battle-scarred pitbull, Chance, who were first introduced in her bestseller One Good Dog.