In Hawaii they call it Ho’oponopono, in New Zealand it’s Te Whanau Awhina. And the Wampanoag people have a similar traditional process — a way of finding a balance or resolution...

People came and just kept coming. David Stanwood’s concert at the West Tisbury Library was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and folks were still flooding in. Typical Islanders on island time. More...

The Kuehn’s Way affordable housing development is named in honor of Robert H. Kuehn Jr., a great friend, who passed away on June 15, 2006. I live in a home that Bob and I purchased together...

When Hokule’a sails into Vineyard Haven on Tuesday, June 28 the captain and navigator Bruce Blankenfeld will guide her to Tisbury Wharf. Bruce stands over six feet tall and he weighs under 180...

Imagine an ocean of islands spanning ten million square miles. Now imagine you must navigate that world without charts or instruments ­— without even a compass — to find a tiny island...

The island was tiny. As we sailed closer, we smelled the sweet aroma of land. We saw a crowd on the beach. Then the singing reached us — a soft, undulating sound blending with surf and wind....

Chad Baybayan stands about five feet, eight inches tall. He has a swimmer’s body, suggesting a capability of delivering powerful strokes and a strong finishing kick. He is dark, both by genetic...

To a modern sailor’s eye, she appears strange. Her twin hulls are joined by laminated wooden crossbeams and fastened to them by six miles of rope lashings woven into complex patterns...

Hokule’a is a replica of the vessels used by Polynesians to settle the Pacific Ocean, a third of our planet, a thousand years before the arrival of Europeans. Launched in 1975, she has sailed...

On Feb. 26, 2000, we departed Tahiti, bound for the big Island of Hawaii. As we sailed beyond the reef and into the deep ocean, the sea turned azure, then almost black. On shore, the people of...