Books & Ideas
On a rainy morning in July 2009, Ed Merck was having breakfast on his boat in Lake Tashmoo. He had just completed a 12-and-a-half day sail up the...
Congratulations to Island libraries. The Library Journal is out with its annual ratings and both the Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury libraries are...
At a Harvard Law School event a few weeks ago that honored Alan Dershowitz’s career, Larry David sent a video.
“Look, the world is divided into two...
West Tisbury Library hosts its semi-annual Community Poetry Reading with emcee West Tisbury poet laureate Justen Ahren on Sunday, Nov. 17 from 4 to 5...
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, the Howes House Tuesday discussion group ponders problems shared between the U.S. and India.
The Vineyard has a long history of being dog-centric. There are dogs on boats, dogs on beaches, dogs at offices. At the top of Circuit avenue there’s...
An Evening Without (Art*Island) with performance readings will be presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts ACLU and the Martha’s Vineyard...
It’s still where’s-my-coffee early and all is quiet at Howes House in West Tisbury. In 15 minutes though, the Council on Aging’s long-running Tuesday...
Vineyarders who have memories, experiences or photographs from the Vineyard during World War II are sought for interviews for a book about World War...
Join author Judith Campell at Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Main street in Vineyard Haven as she talks about her book A Predatory Mission. Her talk is...
If we want written accounts of Island life before the Gazette began to publish in 1846, we must usually rely on letters, town records, deeds, wills...
Richard North Patterson likes to think of himself as a method actor. The 66-year-old writer and part-time resident of West Tisbury writes mostly...
