What can you do when a long, large brown dog is running in traffic and the authorities are nowhere to be found?

The Oak Bluffs selectmen’s meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18, was enlightening in many ways. Discussion shed light on the complexity of beach nourishment that our towns depend on to maintain their beaches.

Scrooge got you down? Christmas not your holiday? Here’s a sure cure — drive into Oak Bluffs.

Tales of a Vineyard primeval are part of tradition. In that Island Eden, great whales, swordfish and cod “the waters brought forth abundantly.” Our ponds once runneth over with scallops and oysters.

My son’s birthday lands near Halloween, and when he was eight and nine and probably even ten and eleven, for his party I would line our whole deck with pumpkins.

Bless the poet/with the chickens/Bless the woman wracked/with pain

We all have a pond we favor on Martha’s Vineyard — so many ponds, separated or not from the salty sea water that surrounds this place, seven miles out from the mainland. The map of the Island, displayed on a board outside the Vineyard Haven Steamship Authority building, looks like a moth-eaten triangle whose lacy holes tell the story of many ponds, large and small.

Brian Ditchfield has paid homage to Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales by creating his own version entitled A Child's Christmas in Edgartown.

The pagoda is living history, a centenarian, it’s an antique, and in the plant world, it is art! Please be a conservationist in the true sense by sharing the pagoda with Edgartown and all tree huggers of the world.

The approach of winter with its gray and stormy days that are inevitable, stirs an instinct among Vineyard people to turn their hands to home employments: the making of rugs, knitting and similar things; the various forms of handicraft that have survived from the colonial days in spite of machinery and machine made goods.