Commentary
Annie Heywood was many things. She was generous, kind, funny, creative and persistent. What she was not was quiet. She was Chappy’s self-appointed...
Most people don’t like fog. Some say it makes them feel gloomy. Others find it scary, but no one bothers to ask the garden.
Old age is not a subject one usually talks about around the dinner table — unless everyone around the dinner table is equally old.
Hokule’a, the famous replica of an ancient Polynesian voyaging canoe, visited Martha’s Vineyard in June of last year.
As April Fool’s Day came and went recently, I remembered that Jimmy Cliff was born on that day in 1948.
Use it or lose it is an old adage, tried and true, that can be applied to a craftsman’s legerdemain, pasture lands or legal stratagems.
I.M. Pei, the famous architect of great buildings all over the world, will turn 100 on April 26.
His great-uncle was Ellsworth Luce West, the last whaling master on Martha’s Vineyard, and Nelson Smith of Edgartown knew him well.
Bertrand Russell was once asked what he would say to God if it turned out there was one and he met him at judgment.
The MVC will decide next month on the proposal to construct a single artificial turf field with organic infill surrounded by a new track.
The following poem was read at town meeting by Steve Ewing, poet laureate of Edgartown.
The following poem by Emma Young, West Tisbury poet laureate, was read at town meeting.
