Unofficially the first poet laureate of the Island was Dionis Coffin Riggs, who began hosting a poetry group at the Cleaveland House in West Tisbury in 1960.
Here is Dionis’s poem Wait, Spring, which was published in the April 19, 1996 Gazette:
Photography
July 28, 2016
The season grows with summer activities scheduled for everywhere and seemingly at once. The trick on the Vineyard at this time of year is to slow down enough to enjoy some of what the Island offers in summer. You cannot explore everything. But the fun is trying to.
July 24, 2016
July 21, 2016
Presented with six cookbooks from six different authors, Lola’s executive chef Frank Bokuniewicz created a summery five course meal for the third annual Cook the Vineyar
July 19, 2016
East Chop porches have a front-row seat for the summer show, as ferries and sailboats sail past and the sun rises and sets, casting beautiful patterns in the sky.
July 18, 2016
The annual Holy Ghost Feast and Festival brings two days of traditional Portuguese celebrations to Oak Bluffs. The parade Sunday morning wound from the Steamship Authority to the Portuguese American Club, where festivities continued Sunday afternoon, with lots of sopa on hand.
July 17, 2016
This is the show: For the next seven weeks, the Island lives not in anticipation or memory but squarely in present tense.
July 17, 2016
A working fishing village with front-row seats for sunsets, Menemsha exerts an inexorable pull on lifelong Islanders and weekend visitors alike, a seemingly timeless place where vintage post card imagery coexists with gritty, wet reality.
July 14, 2016
On any given summer day, Martha's Vineyard’s year-round population is boosted by tens of thousands of people.
July 10, 2016
Crowds thronged Main street in Vineyard Haven Tuesday for the 45th annual Tisbury Street Fair.
July 8, 2016
As the Fourth of July came to a close Edgartown restaurants were full and lines reached out the doors of ice cream shops. Spectators filled downtown streets and found perches wherever they could: harbor benches, sidewalks, beach chairs and towels in the sand by the lighthouse.
July 5, 2016
The Mike Benjamin Band kicked off the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association sunset concert series Friday evening.
July 5, 2016
The Bay State Band played Yankee Doodle and God Bless America. Born in the USA blasted from the Rotary Club’s float speakers. The Martha’s Vineyard Scottish Society had bagpipes, the Peace Society marched, the girls’ tennis float boasted a State Champions sign.
July 4, 2016
It was all about the children at the Camp Ground's Fourth of July Kids Parade.
July 4, 2016
Roses and hydrangeas are in bloom, sidewalks swept clean, windows flung open to the muggy air. Grocery stores are stocked with hot dogs and lemonade. Farm stands are a painterly study in fresh lettuce, sugar snap peas and sweet strawberries still warm from the field.
July 3, 2016
After a three-day visit the Hokule'a departed Friday morning bound for her next stop just across the sound in Woods Hole.
July 1, 2016