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...

On Christmas Eve, as always, St. Nick was in the sky And looking down on land and sea with his most practiced eye, To search for landing venues for his reindeer and their sleigh On mountain...

I’m just back from a visit to pre-Christmas New York. Fifth avenue was bustling with shoppers. The soaring Norway spruce was up above the skating rink at Rockefeller Center. Grand Central...

Saturday is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was not there then, but I have two chunks from the wall on the whatnot in my dining room. Both are gifts from an-11-year-old girl...

There is an apple tree in my West Tisbury back yard. It bears no apples because cedar trees line Tiasquam Road and bring with them cedar-apple rust. But underneath the tree, five cats are buried....

Well-wishing neighbors, family and friends streamed in and out of the West Tisbury home of Robert and Maggie Schwartz over the weekend as the couple prepared to move to a new home after 55 years....