Chris Fischer’s cookbook, published last spring, was honored this week with a James Beard Award for American Cooking.

The Martha’s Vineyard Concert Series will feature, among others, Alan Cumming, Erin Brockovich, Paula Poundstone and the return of David Sedaris. Adam Epstein is the producer.

Shakespeare for the Masses will perform three, yes three, Shakespeare plays in one hour — Richard II and Henry IV, parts one and two.

On Wednesday afternoon Miss Lani sat on the floor with a group of young children at the children’s art studio.

In 1885 Parnell Smith Pease of the Vineyard joined her husband on a whaling trip aboard the Alaska. Her diary is up for auction on Thursday at Swann Auction Galleries in New York city.

I was one of three boys growing up. We ate a lot of meat, compared scars, had pushup contests and wrestled competitively.

It was cold and blustery on Jan. 2, but that didn’t stop a large number of Island birders from heading out into nature for the 56th annual Christmas Bird Count on the Vineyard.

Throughout her life Carly Simon has been a dutiful diarist, and so the whole of her life was just an arm’s length away waiting to be reborn.

Christmas in Edgartown arrives this weekend. Consider it three days of holiday fuel to propel you through the season full of hope, cheer and goodwill toward all.

Misha Sebastian's tale begins in Armenia, ends in Rwanda, stops at detention centers, languishes in Samoa and stars Christiane Amanpour and coffee.