It’s hard to hang up on someone in a satisfying way with a cell phone. That’s why Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, has an old rotary phone at her house. But Ms. Jones isn...

Painter Margot Datz’s brain functions like dancing frogs. Her office work sneaks up on her like hungry mice. The industrious artist, whose show Party Animals opens for its annual one-night...

One immature bald eagle, five snowy owls, 22 great blue herons and a thick-billed murre. This was just part of the tally Friday for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, when hundreds of...

Some people spend years of their lives not knowing they need glasses. When they finally get them, the improved clarity of vision is profound. They can see things they didn’t know were even...

In generations past, ships traveling from Europe brought more than just their intended cargo to North America. In the straw that was used as packing material and animal bedding, the ships often...

In John Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education, the author describes what he sees as a society hooked on school reform—an addictive pattern of...

On Sunday morning, parishioners crowded around all four entrances of Oak Bluffs’ Union Chapel in anticipation of a sermon from guest minister, Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, senior pastor of...

Friday’s deluge of rain turned the grassy parking lots around the grounds of the 156th annual Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair into mud pits. On Saturday...

During the dizzying peak of summer, when intersections are thick with cars, celebrity sightings keep Islanders buzzing, and long lines stretch from ice cream counters, post offices and ferry...

During a total solar eclipse the darkening sky is not the only effect. The temperature drops, winds rise, birds stop singing, fireflies emerge and spiders start dismantling their webs. On Monday,...