On and off, for almost 50 years, my family and I have been returning to the Island for at least one month every summer. My first rental in 1962 — a...

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The anti-conservation comments made by fishing charter Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop in the July issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine about shooting...

His strong sense of being vic timized by White America was, I feel certain, what drove the behavior of Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., widely known as...

Unlike the farmhouse I rent on Middle Road, or Binty, the horse who whiles away her dotage in the meadow adjacent, I am not yet ancient. So what is...

If you’d gone out to the right fork at South Beach on any sunny summer afternoon in the last 40 years, you would have seen her. Dressed in long...

August Days Begin This used to be called changeover weekend, when the July people left and the August people came. But the lines of tradition are...

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Letters to the Editor

This past weekend Featherstone Center for the Arts sponsored an Island-wide tour of artist studios. Seventeen painters and photographers, one...

I have never met Barbara Schlesinger and have no relationship with her whatsoever, yet I am compelled to write to the editor. I have never in my life...

We are writing this letter with a heavy heart. Recently native Tim Fullin was diagnosed with cancer. Tim is going through chemotherapy treatment; he...

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