Day returned — again. Day is my daughter’s security blanket, a small square of blue felt with a satin border she likes to move her fingers along like a set of worry beads.
Six years ago Matt Casey brought one songwriter to the Vineyard. This weekend he is bringing more than 15 musicians and songwriters to the Island as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Songwriting Festival.
On Friday Isaac Taylor opens for Martin Sexton in a benefit concert for WMVY and Club Passim. He will perform songs from his first album, Peace in the Valley, due out in September.
I Am Jane Doe, a harrowing look at the sex trafficking industry, opens Documentary Week at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center. The movie arrives on the Vineyard thanks to the efforts of Alexi Ashe Meyers and Rebecca Dince Zipkin.
On Saturday, at the Little League championships, the Cubs beat the Pirates 5-0 for the Major League title and the Rays beat the Mets 8-4 for the Minor League title.
The Martha's Vineyard Playhouse continues its Monday Night Specials on June 19 with a reading of Gene Play, written by Casey Ann Hayward and Jonah Lipsky, and directed by Joann Green Breuer.
An editor of a national newspaper called me recently to see if I would be interested in writing a piece for them about summer on the Vineyard from a local’s perspective.
How much does a life’s work weigh? In the case of Peter Simon, seven pounds, two ounces. That’s how much his new book Martha’s Vineyard: To Everything There Is a Season weighs.
