Commentary
This summer, the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will be commemorating their centennial and honoring their founder, Agnes D. Meikleham.
Wendell Berry wrote: “If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”
they’d never been there in the summer before
when the white morning sky
burns the mist like snowy cinders
When you lose your partner, tasks envelop you in that first year. Change your bank accounts, send death certificates to Social Security and some...
Great-grand-daughter of a Vineyard whaling captain, daughter of a West Tisbury poet and a New Jersey educator renowned for his Island linoleum block...
Reading the newspaper, watching television or surfing the internet, we acknowledge these are turbulent times. However, examining world affairs, the...
Now is the season of roses and they are adorning West Tisbury roadsides and gardens and fields.
The subject of West Tisbury resident Marc Favreau’s latest book for young adult readers is the surprise attack launched by Japan on the US Naval base...
“Black as ink” / A simile just right / Yet as a metaphor, / “Inkwell” takes flight / More than a beach / On the Vineyard’s shore / This enduring icon...
Islander idly rumbles
in her slip
calmly churning in the
dying light
Good afternoon my fellow Vineyarders and associated wash-a-shores. Thank you all for being here today.
I had the great privilege of being Ron Rappaport’s law partner for over 25 years. Ron’s passing is a great loss for his family, the Island community...
