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With a PhD in ecology and a jaunty writing style, Carl Safina isn’t so much a science writer as he is a writer who is a scientist.
Mary Norris is concerned about the future of the apostrophe.
“The apostrophe is most vulnerable to the march of progress,” said Ms. Norris, a query...
Bob Ryan calls it how he sees it. Hold the sugar. Give an audience the truth and nothing but the truth, plain and simple. At the end of the day, the...
Ginny Gilder is a self-described challenge seeker. As a young woman, she set her sights on a goal that most told her was impossible — to become an...
New York Times Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow was a 20-year-old college student when he had an epiphany that freed him to let go of his past and fully...
Mark London’s to-do list after his last day heading the Martha’s Vineyard Commission includes painting, photography, spending time with his family —...
We have only happy tails to tell this week at the animal shelter. The universe has lined up for Hana, our Italian Greyhound.
A gauzy blanket of heat settled over the Island last week and then a little like the latest round of house guests, decided to stay for awhile.
Varian and David Cassat were Presbyterians, but probably not deeply theological Presbyterians
Robert Wesley Jones (at different times Bobby or Bob Jones or B.J.) was born in Boston on July 24, 1929, but within days was on Martha’s Vineyard, at...
I cherish memories of taking my son Alan and daughter Emma out saltwater flyfishing when they were growing up on the Vineyard.
I have found that the romance of sailing is often enjoyed before and after the reality of passage making.