The report from an engineering consulting firm that parts of East Chop Drive have been deemed unsafe, possibly even for pedestrians, is sad news. Some of my happiest early memories are of walking...

Four Vineyard-bound rescue dogs had a three-day, two-night cruise from Bermuda to Port Elizabeth, N.J. last week with their Angels Helping Animals rescuers, Leslie Hurd of East Chop and Lynn...

Recently I spent an hour in a paddy wagon in Portland. I know I should not be calling a police car that picks up miscreants by that name since it dates to a time when Irish immigrants were disparaged...

My favorite season has arrived again and this year with a pleasing vengeance. Not only did a powdery snow herald the New Year’s Eve weekend, but cold temperatures assured that the snow would...

The Chappy ferries come and go     In summer rush and winter snow ’Twixt Chappy isle and Edgartown,      Dukes County’s seat of great renown. They...

DAPHNE OF MARTHA’S VINEYARD. By Cynthia Riggs. Photographs by Lynn Christoffers. Design by Janet Holladay. Cleaveland House Books. 40 pages. $20. This delightful children’s paperback...

I like country living, but last Saturday I was not so sure. That was when I opened the hall door that gives access through a cat door to my two gold and white cats — Vercingetorix (named for a...

The recent upheaval around Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has reminded me of my 1996 visit to that southern African nation, formerly Rhodesia. When I was there, along with going on a walking...

AnnaBell (ABell) Leinbach Washburn, a longtime Edgartown seasonal resident whose devotion to saving animals earned her many citations and awards including from a U.S. President, died in New York city...

It is the season of orange lilies up-Island and down. Sometimes they edge gardens; sometimes they edge roadsides, but wherever they are, their bright orange lights up the landscape. Rambler roses and...