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Lectures, those events featuring knowledgeable experts discussing their subjects, are such yesterday’s news. How about instead a person actually...
Grandparents Day
Friday, August 26 from 9 a.m. to noon it’s grandparents day at the Native Earth Teaching Farm off North Road in Chilmark....
Thrilling rides, impressive artwork, and delicious food — including onion rings, fruit smoothies, barbecued ribs and fresh lemonade — entice...
From a 1991 Just a Thought column by Art Railton:
Most of us have moments when we feel more important than we really are. It doesn’t happen often...
Dear President Obama:
With so many top-notch advisors to routinely advise you, how audacious of me to think I might offer some nugget that might...
As the sun began to set at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Hall fair grounds Sunday evening, farmers began to haul their animals into waiting...
It was the right thing to do.
This past April we sold our primary residence outside of Boston and moved the proverbial lock, stock and what...
Enter the Solarbeam
Southern New England Solar has installed the first solar parabolic concentrator on a residence in the United States, here on...
Massachusetts architects Elizabeth Morgan and Ann W. Marshall are working as colleagues in Peru to install an exhibition of archaeological...
Island author, Pulitzer-prize winner and self-described “deep-green, feminist, tree-hugging” Geraldine Brooks recalled a thankless trudge through...
Since 1968, the black middle class in America has quadrupled, Henry Louis (Skip) Gates told a packed house at the Edgartown Whaling Church on...
From a podium bearing the presidential seal set up before a grove on Blue Heron Farm, President Obama spoke to the people of Libya yesterday,...