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For several weeks now I have been complaining about the heat and lack of significant rain. Why should this week be any different? It is difficult for...
The mythological Medusa was feared and reviled for her looks. The snakes that emerged from her head made her more than just odd and ugly. They,...
Greater shearwaters are a pelagic species of bird. They spend a very small percentage of their life on land. The short time they are on terra...
Friday, July 16: Sunny. More than a dozen large sailboats race to the west side of East Chop in midmorning. Mostly blue skies. A couple...
Celebrate the Sea, Its Keepers and Songs
On Thursday night, Mark Alan Lovewell, a singer, storyteller and Vineyard Gazette reporter...
Memories of Walter Cronkite — as both a sailor on the Vineyard waterfront and as the nation’s favorite television journalist — were shared...
Clifton Athearn helped liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Curtis Jones spent 26 months as a prisoner of war. Nelson...
Bodhi Path Buddhist Center founder Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Sharmapa, will be on Martha’s Vineyard for a weekend teaching series July 24...
Nell Irvin Painter’s The History of White People examines the concept of white as a racial category: what is considered a white race, what...