A pickup truck on the Chappy ferry last night captured the essence of this time of year. The bed was overflowing with bikes, beach chairs, fishing pole and bags of various shapes and sizes, all tied...

All ages gathered at the community center on Sunday night to celebrate Sidney Morris’s seventieth birthday. Sidney and his wife Margaret moved to Chappaquiddick in the seventies, raised their...

The sun made a rare and much-welcomed appearance on Chappy this weekend. Like most of New England, we have had an unusually wet and cool spring, with the majority of days forecast for rain or clouds...

Hello from sunny California! We are here celebrating the life of my husband’s grandfather, Ted, who passed away a year ago just a few days after his 97th birthday. Ted lived on a large tract of...

That old phrase “love is in the air” never seemed truer than during a walk in the Chappy woods one day last week. My mom, Jan Pogue, was on a land bank trail by Poucha Pond when she...

The osprey have returned to their poles at Chappy point, Wasque and East Beach. Each pair has started rebuilding their nest, piling on new sticks and beach trash on top of the existing foundations...

Lots of news from our little island this week. The new Chappy cell-tower was installed last week on Sampson avenue. Because the approval process was so lengthy and cell technology is changing so...

The temperatures have been a bit milder this week with still afternoons and plenty of sunshine. As the light is now lingering later into the evening, spring feels imminent. Chappy has started to come...

It is school vacation this week and the Island is noticeably quiet. With many families away on off-Island adventures, Edgartown’s Main street was nearly empty late Sunday afternoon. Only a...

“This is the most beautiful place on Earth,” Edward Abbey writes in his opening line of Desert Solitaire. He continues: “There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries...