Will Monast

2015

February 26, 2015

Keeping Memories Afloat in Turbulent Waters

Will Monast
Will Monast
Gazette columnist Will Monast, who wrote Tales from Gosnold for the Gazette and had a devoted following, died on Feb. 18. What follows is a column by him first published in June 2013.

2014

March 20, 2014

Life's a Puzzle With a Couple of Pieces Gone

Will Monast
Will Monast
Charlie has a really good chance of becoming the first honest-to-goodness cancer survivor ever from this isolated little rock, which boasts absolutely no medical attention whatsoever.

2013

November 27, 2013

Soul Mining With a Bull Rake and Skiff

Will Monast
Will Monast
Robbie Tibbets came to the Island from the small town in Maine where he grew up. He had been sitting on his favorite bar stool drinking Heineken some years ago, which is what he did all summer until harvest time when a news program flashed pictures of a state police helicopter landing in a five-acre field of pot not too far away.
October 24, 2013

Tales from Gosnold: When Being Left Behind Is Real Reward

Will Monast
Will Monast
Well, we had the “I’m Sorry I Called You That Terrible Name On Broadway In July But I Was Stressed Out Dinner” last Thursday. It’s an October thing, a let-down thing, a healing thing, slow, a little uneasy at first, and without energy.
September 12, 2013

Journey Came and Went With the Tide

Will Monast
Will Monast
It was almost Labor Day and we were hoping to get through the summer without too much drama at least until we got to the annual I’m Sorry I Called You What I Called You on Broadway in July but I Was Stressed Out dinner, which would come right after. But that was not to be. Every year we launch 92-year-old Jack Farnsworth’s little wooden skiff and tie it up to the dock so that he can sit down there and look at it and perhaps tell the summer tourists a few lies about his adventures in it some years ago.
August 29, 2013

Cooking Up a Hawaiian Sound With Dash of Vineyard Groove

Will Monast
Music
Will Monast

For the past five summers John Cruz has been coming to the Vineyard to sing on the schooner Alabama for three nights in August. The day after one of the cruises this year, John talked about his work, his music, his life and deep connections to the Vineyard. “The two things I love most to do are making music and cooking,” he said while preparing a lunch of striped bass for friends in the ramshackle red farmhouse across from Alley’s General Store in West Tisbury.

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