Carrots will last in the ground until spring. Frost makes them super sweet.
Nature & Science
Menemsha fisherman Walter Dixon had a surprise shipmate join his fishing trip on Monday afternoon: a brown booby.
Caterpillars are eating my garden greens. More accurately, they are voraciously consuming every leaf in sight, leaving me almost nothing but...
Unexpected is not an understatement. A brown booby is a pelagic species that some birders make special trips to the Dry Tortugas to see.
The archery season for deer will be extended by two weeks in an area of the state that includes the Vineyard, state officials announced last week.
The coming week offers all of us an opportune time to go hunting for shooting stars.
Beachcomber and paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam needed something he could really sink his teeth into. He found it in a discovery about a small mollusk...
Pages
I do not recall Thanksgiving Day being so cold as this past week. This is only, of course, in Vineyard memory. Thanksgiving in Rew, Pa. was another story. We always went down the valley to grandparents Kate and Bill Irons, Dad’s family. He was one of 12 children so there were boatloads of cousins. There was usually snow on the ground already. The sleds and snowmobiles were located in the barn and we were off until dinner was served.
I write this week on Monday before the big holiday. The weather forecast is for very cold temperatures on Thanksgiving.