Books & Ideas
Remember when summer meant reading for fun just because you wanted to? The Martha’s Vineyard Library Association likes to perpetuate that feeling...
In the Wampanoag language, the word “noepe” means, according to one interpretation, a still place among the currents. The Wampanoag people gave the...
In the winter of 1993, travel writer and essayist Edward Hoagland was travelling in Eastern Africa on assignment for Harper’s Magazine. He had...
What would Dionnis Coffin Riggs do? That’s the question Cynthia Riggs asks herself every time she finds Victoria Trumbull, the protagonist in her...
The summer reading program at the Vineyard Haven library begins June 29 when Andy and Veronica Fish lead a free kids’ comic workshop for ages 8 to 12...
The West Tisbury Library reports that the book drop at the West Tisbury School shed is filled to capacity. Donations to the library’s annual book...
Thanks to Kindle and Nook there is a self-publishing revolution going on. Self-publishing pioneer Laura Shabott will answer all questions surrounding...
Despite its small size, the Vineyard has long fed the creative spirits of numerous artists, from writers to painters and everything in between. For...
A changing of the guard took place Wednesday morning as Zoe Pechter and Sondra Murphy read aloud to a group of youngsters at the Oak Bluffs Public...
Summer reads are one thing, but the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival is quite another. In its fifth year, the festival occurs the first weekend in...
Carol Carrick, the well-known children’s author whose books have had a cherished place on family bookshelves and in children’s rooms in public...
The Vineyard community will always have a strong love affair with its four lighthouses. Nearly all of the local ones are still standing, though some...
