Eureka. Last week, we had more snow days. I could follow deer and rabbit tracks in the snow. I could crunch through fields of snow. I was delighted to find genuine icicles hanging from my evergreens...

At last, on Monday snow fell up- Island, enough to cover fields and roofs and stone walls. I made a quick foray early in the morning down Music street in West Tisbury but it was slippery and I went...

On Christmas Eve when snow was thick      To Martha’s Vineyard came St. Nick And all his reindeer wearing masks      As was St. Nick for this year’s...

With Christmas approaching, I searched the other day for holiday cookie and cake recipes in my cache of old-time recipes. I came across two tattered Island recipe collections. One, undated, was put...

The other day an old, over-laden bookcase in my library threatened to give way. Trying to keep that from happening, I lessened its load by taking out heavy volumes. Memories flooded by. There was,...

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...