Jane Kenyon
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. I am the heart contracted by joy, the longest hair, white before the rest.-Jane Kenyon
August 21, 1998
Island History Comes Alive in Vineyard Voices
Vineyard Voices: Words, Faces and Voices of Island People. Excerpts from Interviews by Linsey Lee. Photographs by Linsey Lee and Mark Lennihan. Martha’s Vineyard: the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society, 1998. 296 pages. $29.95, soft cover. Vineyard bookstores on Wednesday began selling a collection of spoken memories of Martha’s Vineyard going back to the beginning…
Society Wages Campaign for Lighthouses
Lighthouses define the character of Martha’s Vineyard. They guide people from land and sea to the same shorelines, sheltering them under beacons of home. Today, the Island’s lighthouses are deteriorating. Bricks are crumbling in the breeze, and iron is flaking away in the salt air. Before long, these landmarks could be reduced to brittle,…
Hospital Joins New Alliance
In a new partnership described as “the greatest of leaps,” Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has entered into an agreement for sharing staff and expertise with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The agreement means that the hospitals will share doctors, including specialists that the Island hospital does not keep on staff full-time, such as…
