A Documentary Fueled by Friendship

It’s not every documentary that tells the story of how it came about at the very start.

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For Rose Styron, Life Is Poetry in Motion
Mollie Doyle

A day with poet, journalist and human rights activist Rose Styron at her home overlooking Vineyard Haven harbor. It begins with bacon.

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Sinatra Comes for Spaghetti, and Opposites Cook Up a Lasting Tangle of Friendship
Sam Bungey

In many ways they are polar opposites, as different as North and South, their lives divided by the Mason Dixon Line. One is the consummate mother, wife and gardener, her laundry done, hair parted straight, thoughts quiet and ordered. The other is a consummate hostess, house full of people, dog on the loose, hair flying, calendar cluttered, a poet who scribbles her lines at all hours with whatever writing implement is at hand. And despite all these differences — or perhaps because of them — Rose Styron and Lucy Hackney are also fast friends.

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Rose Styron’s Vineyard Winter of Content
Sara Brown

Come May for the past two years, a pair of ducks have come to nest on Rose Styron’s lush lawn overlooking the outer Vineyard Haven harbor. “They eat a lot, at least the mother eats a lot, and the father, a gorgeous green-necked mallard, guards her. And when she’s fat enough, she goes to make a nest under the dock,” Mrs. Styron said, looking out at the water from her porch.

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