BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) The 44th President of the United States of America is poised to set foot on our summer, or for others year-round, home. It...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) Peter Norton sat on his porch at the historic Corbin–Norton house, dapperly dressed in coat and tie, waiting...

IN SEARCH OF OUR ROOTS: How 19 Extraordinary Americans Reclaimed Their Past. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. Crown. January, 2009. 424 pages. $27.50.Flowing from his PBS documentary African American Lives,...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) “Hope is the thing with feathers/that perches in the soul,” Emily Dickinson wrote. Our welfare, whether...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) It is a long-held piece of Oak Bluffs tradition that those who summer here year after year upon returning each year are in...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) There were so many days during June and early July when a weather makeover of this little piece of paradise became an...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) Each Island community offers an experience as unique and different as pond and ocean, yet we share a common heritage and...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) We all gave a collective sigh of relief as the rains ceased and the weather mildly cooperated for the 18th Harbor fest and...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) As the chilling June rains gave way this week to bright sun and wholesome breezes, I came back to my Island home. I found...

President Obama has inherited the most challenging global economic crisis in the nation’s history. If we thought for one moment that we had the luxury of political drama offered up...