It was 25 years ago that I met John Cruz. I was outside his house playing guitar in the Irish style of dropped tuning where you slack the strings.

Winter, summer, spring and fall, Martha’s Vineyard depends on volunteers.

Come in June, she said, when rising tides are full of fish and days are long and summer is a bright prospect on the horizon.

I am not used to ill health in myself, which is why not too long ago I signed up to build a chimney with a friend.

“Millions viewed the eclipse.” So said the mainland newspapers, and the Vineyard added its thousands to the common mass.

Martha’s Vineyard can look with pride on its Civil War statue, built to express an aspiration as urgent today as it was in 1891: to heal a nation’s...

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Letters to the Editor

This morning I was driving near the Triangle in Edgartown.

The Friends of the Oak Bluffs Library want to thank all for this weekend’s Miniature Golf at the Library.

We stand with Attorney General Maura Healey when she says that this “is not a reality we can accept.”

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