The Chilmark Library is hosting a book sale beginning Wednesday, Dec. 8 and running through Dec. 30.

Childhood is a strangely-shaped box and once you clamber out you can never quite fit back inside.

I fondly remember riding down Main street in Vineyard Haven at this time of year with farmer Fred Fisher at the reins of his hay wagon, guiding his horses May and December.

The cold weather is coming. We had snow flurries on Sunday.

It's December. Each year it arrives as the 12th month. Each year it arrives far too quickly.

Looking down at the earth from 33,000 feet is spectacular.

I still have nearly a bushel of unplanted bulbs looking at me accusingly.

Joseph Pastore purchased 8 Trapps Pond Road in Edgartown from Trapps Pond Road Real Estate LLC for $2,700,000 on Nov. 22.

There I was, at 12:05 on Nov. 29, taking my second grade class out for recess. Of course, I was not thinking about birds and did not have my binoculars.

John Merle (J.M.) Coulter was a survivor.