Learjets on final approach ride wakes of noise, the whoosh of traffic throbs off the seawall and the wail of the lumpen mob soars over Circuit avenue.   It’s summer. It’s time for...

At first glance it would seem that allowing folks in seaplanes to zoom into any of our great ponds is a bad idea. And maybe it is. But, according to a knowledgeable bush pilot friend, the pilot who...

In a 1967 Life magazine story, the late William Stryon was quoted as saying: “Writing is a cruel and wracking pursuit. I hope none of my children follow in my path.” Alexandra Styron has...

The wind over Lucy Vincent Beach has to be just right, from the southeast and maybe 10 to 15 miles an hour, so that it strikes the cliff there and forms a column of rising air. When that happens, if...

On Sunday, Claire Nichols was at the Grey Barn in West Tisbury. “My mom is the cheese maker here.She’s making yogurt now. I like to play with the goats and walk around the farm.We just...

The signs appeared all over the Island last weekend and caught residents by surprise. One sits on the hill west of the Tashmoo overlook, with gnarled and bent trees in the background and...

Last Saturday night at the Chilmark Tavern, Dee Stevens, artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and David Stanwood, pianist and inventor of a new system of piano...

The hall was filled with people, the message from the minister powerful. “Go and testify to the way God works, for that is what Jesus’s life, ministry, death and...

Longtime friends Kenny Lockwood, Paul Thurlow and Nancy Jephcote joined with Washington state-based Daniel Macke on Friday at the Pit Stop to play a medley of their original compositions for a large...

Dave Stanwood returned home on Sunday at 2 p.m., after a trip to Woods Hole to see his mother, to find two new lambs had been added to his flock of five ewes. He sat for a while watching...