Commentary
I love The Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York city. Buses, more than planes or trains, make me feel as though I’m sneaking away, as though I’m...
There’s more than high school team rivalry that keeps people on the Vineyard and Nantucket braced apart from one another. Unless you’re one of the...
It is now safe to speak openly about beach plums. Here on the Vineyard they are almost all gone, picked by the fanatics or eaten by the birds. Yet...
It’s a staple of local conventional wisdom that one of the reasons famous people love our Island is that we encounter them with a nonchalance that...
The Mill Pond and its upstream cousins: Mill, Priester, Crocker, Fisher (also known as Woods), plus two or more smaller ponds, each with dams, are...
Three years ago in my sophomore history class, a young woman sat in the corner, deliberately placing herself outside the circle of activity in the...
No one ever walked away from a conversation with Tom Hale and said: “I wonder what he wanted to tell me”? Tom embraced life in all its complexity,...
Martha’s Vineyard is a perfect place to start a life. Especially in the fall. A time for renewal. A time to re-tool. The next best thing to moving...
And the cry rings out, “A.P. did it!” I think
he’d be tickled. It’s an honor bestowed on each and every one of us on our way down to the cemetery. A...
I missed Angela Davis’s description last month of life on
Palestine’s West Bank when she was there on behalf of Jewish Voice for Peace. I did,...
Can’t get there from here. Bert and I said it first,
but Chappaquiddick truly took the sentiment to heart. Giving (or receiving) directions on Chappy...
Last Friday, pressed for time, I
took the evening Cape Air flight to Boston, having enjoyed a few days alone after settling my daughters at their...
