Commentary
My first chat with Ginny Jones was a long one, as they all were, for Ginny didn’t do small talk.
Former director of the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, Bob Moore, died on Friday.
Americans have strong opinions on who belongs and who doesn’t.
The day after the election, I couldn’t concentrate. I paced my home, my neighborhood, went to the dentist, missed an important meeting, all because...
I never met my grandfather, Harris M. Crist. He passed away before I was born and yet he has been a constant part of my Vineyard life.
“I’m gonna make it to heaven. Light up the sky like a flame. I’m gonna live forever. Baby, remember my name.”
“AIN’T I A WOMAN”
Yelled Sojourner Truth
Heard and felt deeply
Among abolitionists
And suffragettes too
When I was a child we would occasionally take up-Island excursions to Menemsha or Gay Head. En route, there would often be a stopover at Indian Hill.
I sit outside
quietly, the autumn tree
stands next to me.
One morning recently I stopped in at my favorite morning coffee klatch having noticed a familiar vehicle out front.
On a cold April morning in 1970, I stood in the Felix Neck barn with high school students on a field trip.
Part of my summer ritual for the last 30 years is a final bike ride, coasting down the hill from our Oak Bluffs cottage.
