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About 40 years ago my wife and I built a modest summer house on the high point of Chappaquiddick known as Samson’s Hill. We fell in love with Samson...
If you haven’t heard about the latest incendiary human who used an arsenal of firearms to blow away a dozen Colorado moviegoers as well as injure...
Why did the chicken cross the road?
We can finally put paid to this old joke because the answer, after visiting 17-year-old Cord Bailey’s 11...
As I sat with my family Sunday, eating blueberry pancakes under piercing blue skies at the Katama Airfield — along with dozens of others outside the...
What follows are the three winning essays from the annual Della Hardman essay contest at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Students were...
I woke up early the other morning to perfect conditions for kayaking. The brackish water of Stonewall, Quitsa and Menemsha ponds was so still it...
Big, blue snowballs of hydrangeas backed by a white picket fence are a summer staple on the Vineyard. While the mophead flowers of bigleaf...
The Island is a unique place to raise children, who are exposed to incredible opportunities for learning skills, earning income at an early age and...
Fifty-two years ago my parents bought a house overlooking Quitsa Pond in Chilmark. The land had been owned by the Huntingtons and before that by the...
Human nature cannot be studied in cities except at a disadvantage — a village is the place. There you can know your man inside and out — in a city...
I build stone circles To watch The sweep Of year The fan of rises The arc Of settings
I was moved by news of the death of Gladys Widdiss. She has long been one of my Island heroes, starting with her becoming valedictorian of her...
