Like everyone else in these stay-at-home times, I have been cooking more than I usually do. And I have been bringing out pots and pans with a long history. I know aluminum is no longer considered an...

Early Sunday morning, I like to walk Middle Road from West Tisbury just across the line into Chilmark. On weekdays, the traffic is too heavy and too fast for strollers. There was a time when the...

PAUCARTAMBO: A Midlife Adventure from Martha’s Vineyard to Peru. Written and illustrated by Shirley W. Mayhew. Music Street Press. $25, 169 pages. In 1983 when Shirley Mayhew of West Tisbury...

A few stalks of asparagus appear in my overgrown West Tisbury vegetable garden each year. I tend to miss them until they are too tall to eat. But this year, I have managed to salvage two scraggly...

In these stay-at-home days I am cleaning out my cellar and finding all sorts of interesting memorabilia from a lifetime of writing about travel. There is a keepsake piece of metal from a 1986...

In these disruptive coronavirus times, I have been searching for something cheerier. And, of course, I have found it. All last week I was finding the first signs of spring in the woods and fields...

John S. Alley, West Tisbury historian, justice of the peace, county commissioner and former longtime selectman, died suddenly at home Wednesday after sufffering a heart attack. He was 78. For 27...

I know I am in a minority on the Vineyard, but I like snow. Consequently, this past winter, with only one snowfall that I recall, has been a disappointment. So I awoke with delight on Saturday to...

Clearly, I am out of step with the times. I recall, when I was a child, being amused at the way my octogenarian grandmother referred to cars as “machines.” Since she was born before the...

Admittedly, it was decades ago that I was in Iran, during the last year of the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi regime, but I have never forgotten the beauty of the Imam Mosque — the...