The great grandson of the Universal Studios founders continues to formulate plans for a 50th anniversary Jaws festival on the Island, although concrete details are sparse.
Jack Ryan is a master of the pointillist technique of stippling, using a pen to draw dots that create shapes and contrasts of shadow and light. Mocha Motts in Vineyard Haven is hosting an art exhibit by Mr. Ryan during the month of March.
In the evening the turkeys put themselves to bed. I take in the sight at the West Tisbury graveyard, my car parked at the side of the sharp curve in the road, the dog Artichoke by my side.
Charlie Giordano is a boxer, a musician, a motorcycle enthusiast and an artist. His latest work of art is a motorcycle he calls Voodoo Doll, which will be on display at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, beginning with an opening reception Friday, Feb. 16 at 5:30 p.m.
Mary Jo (Jody) Reston, former co-owner and publisher of the Vineyard Gazette, died in Sarasota, Fla on Monday, Feb. 12 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 86.
Rez Williams, an acclaimed Island artist known for his large-scale paintings of boats and his devotion to Island conservation, died in Boston on Sunday, Feb. 4. He was 81.
Featherstone Center of the Arts bings its 2024 season with an exhibit called Love Laugh Leap Live! An opening reception takes place Sunday, Feb. 4 from 4 to 6 p.m.
The conditions were promising for the Christmas Bird Count count — not too cold, not too windy and no fog — as 13 teams fanned out around the Island for the annual check-in with our avian community.
Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, longtime professor at MIT, winner of the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 2014 and Chilmark summer resident since 1962, died on Dec. 21
The other night, while picking out a Christmas tree with my family, an older man approached me, holding a bouquet of holly branches. “I’m in love with your wife,” he told me.
