A new hotel is proposed for Oak Bluffs in the spot where the Ocean View restaurant welcomed generations of Islanders for dinner. And a fun Island to-do list to help you through school vacation.
At farms around the Island, lambs are one of the many spring harbingers here that include the chorus of pinkletinks from the swamps and wetlands, and majestic osprey circling overhead as they build their nests.
The snow-covered pasture is a soft, white-on-white expanse curving under a cold, gray sky. Outside Pam Goff's old Chilmark barn, five black-faced, wool-plumped ewes mill around on the straw and mud, bleating in urgent, slow-motion coughs to the skinny-legged lambs nuzzling against them.
