Some 50 years ago when I first moved to West Tisbury, the late Willis Gifford was a dinner guest one night. He chuckled as he looked down at the aqua and pink ironstone plate in the Singapore Bird...

I like hats. The coat rack in my library holds no coats but is adorned with hats. One informs in Chinese that I have climbed the Great Wall of China. Every once in awhile on a sunny summer day when I...

’Twas Christmas Eve in Tisbury      And trees were all alight St. Nick was coming surely,      The stars were gleaming bright. The Steamship dock...

Benjy Meets Some Wild Animals; Summertime in the Country With Granny and Grandpa by Heidi Schultz. Illustrated by Katrina Nevin. Tisbury Printer. This charming little book about an eight-year-old...

Now that pneumonia shots are being offered at pharmacies, I am asking my doctor to request one for me. It isn’t that I have a cough or sniffles, but it is what I fear lies ahead for me his...

No Fixed Address: How to Run Away From It All by Eileen Maley, Second Wind Publications, 404 pages, $15. Any traveler, or prospective traveler, will be entranced by this memoir by Canadian-born...

THE RIDDLE OF THE GRAVEYARD. By Peter Hufstader, Hedge Fence Press, softcover, illustrated, 180 pages, $18. This maritime adventure story, ostensibly for young people, was inspired by its author...

In the 1970s, Vineyard conservationist Henry Beetle Hough, editor and publisher of this paper from 1920 to 1965 and founder with his wife Betty of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, suffered the...

It said Gate N63 on my Icelandic Air ticket from Berlin to Boston. Boarding time was 1:23 p.m. As required for an international flight, I had arrived at the airport three hours ahead of time. I was...

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...