There are times in our lives when incidents in the lives of people we do not know take on such profound meaning that we want to learn more. For me that came through a conversation with my...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) Karen Achille, the children’s librarian, and her three assistants, Allison Brown, Colleen Morris, and Kristina Ivory, run a...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) One of the coolest spots to hang out in Oak Bluffs is our street mall off Circuit avenue. There are regulars who take their dogs...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) The fascination and excitement of the Fourth of July celebration came and went, but it was Sunday morning, July 6, under the...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) Oak Bluffs has no rocky coastline, or well-heeled casinos, no four-star restaurants, or dapperly dressed regulars, except for a...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) It’s my time — that magical salute to summer that begins the moment I drive off the ferry, excited as a kid ready to...

The old America I knew took a hike last week and a new America emerged before my unbelieving eyes at approximately 9:30 in the evening. That was the hour my belief system was turned upside-...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) If Boston landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland were alive today, he would be pleased that the town he laid out and planned...

BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) The sun has moved to a new trajectory. Leaves on the tomato and squash plants curl and brown. The dill and rocket have gone to...

When we think of polar bears we think of icebergs, Alaska, the North Pole and because of environmental changes and diminishing ice floes we are also forced to think endangered species. When we think...