Commentary
In summer, the slam of the screen door announced visitors before they called out the name of who they came to see. It was always special company when...
The following is excerpted from an oral history interview done with Edward W. Brooke by Linsey Lee of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in August of 2007...
The death of former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke comes as a personal loss for me. I had the distinct honor of working for Senator Brooke in Washington...
Think of the infinite spaces between the past and present, the present and the future. If we took a breath, slowed down, we would enjoy “the music...
Dear Governor Baker: throw away the Massachusetts Health Connector website and start all over again.
Collaboration is a buzzword in the nonprofit world that elicits varied reactions. Donors and foundations encourage it because they believe it makes...
Over the years people have asked in that incredulous voice, how are the winters out there? Isn’t it freezing? You get away for a few months, right?
Every Christmas on Martha’s Vineyard is an old fashioned Christmas, even though the observance came relatively late to New England. The three youths...
'Twas Christmas Eve and Santa Claus was readying for his trip to see his Vineyard friends, of course, but traveling not by ship, nor ferry boat nor...
The rock and the general — those are the words I use to describe my paternal grandparents. Herbert and Claire Mercier, married for 63 years, created...
I woke up wearing a hospital gown. The paper napkin tie-on dress was a faded robin’s egg blue, dotted with orange bloodstains from the burns that...
"Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!" That’s how my grandmother, Addie Crist, would greet me when she came to visit my parents and me for the...
