Commentary
The Tiasquam snakes across the flats / like a student’s handwriting, / curving and back tracking, in no great hurry.
Doors open wide / To horizon’s illusions / Of noble ideals / “Independence,” equality,” / “Freedom,” and “justice”
Next Friday, the International School of Engineering/Architecture (IEAC) of Cern, Switzerland will continue its preliminary assessment of the causes...
A year ago, it didn’t seem possible but the light is at the end of the pandemic tunnel.
The Sweetest Days by John Hough Jr., Gallery Books, 2021, 352 pages, $27.
“The Edgartown Fireworks have been cancelled for the second year in a row,” complained some Island residents.
There are a lot of aspects of Island living that aren’t initially apparent to the short-term visitor, or for that matter to the summer resident.
A Polaroid photo captures my father standing over his barbecue rotisserie. His left hand is cupping a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a cigarette.
She would have remembered today’s blue sky / from summers at the Vineyard Sailing Camp / where she learned about tacking and heeling / and coming...
I never met Richard Robinson, who died in Chilmark at 84 years of age last week. But 100 million children he never met are alive today because of his...
Juneteenth and Father’s Day
Third week of June
A double celebration
Of fathers we know
And those liberated
Over a hundred years ago
On...
My father, Peter Hugh Hufstader, who died April 19, is remembered warmly as an educator, sailor, good-government activist and friend.