Commentary
Everybody here has a gig, sometimes two or three. They are craftsman, artists, master chefs, farriers, healers or visionaries. But what was I?
One winter I rented a house, high on a hill in Chilmark, overlooking the Atlantic. The sun came and went. The ocean changed from grey to green to...
It doesn’t happen often, at least not away from a harbor, but there are times when chance favors a meeting between well-traveled sailors when they...
These cold and sunless days of rain and intermittent drizzle have brought to mind the day I tried to rescue a white domestic duck on the Connecticut...
As I am sure readers know, the Island is a special place when adversity and difficult news hits home, the people on the Island show up.
Three bad storms, back-to-back. Severe erosion. Major flooding. It’s time to start talking about managed retreat from the coast.
Many people under the age of 50 have never heard of him, yet in the 1930s and ‘40s, Jimmy Cagney was one of Hollywood’s biggest box office stars.
The first notice I received was from the Registry of Motor Vehicles announcing I had a birthday coming up, and was required to renew my driver’s...
A swan, on Old Mill Pond, is hurting, or so it seems to me.
I’m a driver but I like the idea of driving more than the act itself.
While eyeing the cold winter water from several stories up on an Island ferry, my thoughts wandered as I looked out on the frigid expanse of the...
From 1963: The Rev. Henry L. Bird, rector of the Episcopal parish on Martha’s Vineyard, is with a group of ten clergymen this week in Williamston, N...