Monthly Archives: December 2020
Mini-golf holiday popup
Have fun at the Little House Café's Holiday Spectacular at The Cove. The mini-golf course includes a snow machine, music, and festive lights. To...
Alpaca Walk and Talk
Go for a stroll with soft and gentle alpaca and learn the basics of safely handling them, where they come from, and why they...
‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ makes a sweet Christmas gift
“Wild Mountain Thyme,” a sugary Irish romance, comes to the M.V. Film Center on Thursday, Dec. 24, with the first in-person screening on Saturday,...
Slough Farm hosts comics workshop with Paul Karasik
Slough Farm in Edgartown has announced a new workshop with New Yorker cartoonist, international educator, and local storyteller Paul Karasik. Titled “Tales of the...
Chilmark library offers writing workshop
Are you working on a picture book, middle-grade or young adult story, or nonfiction for young people? Or have you always wanted to? Join...
Basia Jaworska: Activism through art
For the past decade or so, artist Basia Jaworska has turned the focus of her painting to civil rights and social and cultural issues....
Who says you can’t popover?
My wife and I used to have a naughty routine. (Get your minds out of the gutter.) We’d toss our diets aside on Friday...
West Tisbury: Holiday traditions
It will be Christmas Eve when you are reading this column. Christmas is always such a combination of emotions and activity for most of...
Tisbury: Sending Christmas cards
Heard on Main Street: I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I’m thinking of making a few more.
Santa’s last minute hint: Are you out...
Oak Bluffs: Messages for the holidays
Once again a light snow storm has draped a blanket of snow over the ground. If only it was as warm as the quilt...
Edgartown: New ways to share joy
As I write this week’s column, I am gazing upon my Christmas tree with lights, still awaiting ornaments. We decorated the front of the...
Chilmark: Island’s great ponds
The Solstice has passed so our days are getting brighter by about four more minutes of light each day. Last week's snow made it...
Edgartown adds three new special officers
The Edgartown Police Department welcomed three new year-round special police officers Wednesday morning — Dodi Klingensmith, Tyler Moreis, and Alaina Socrat.
Klingensmith was previously a...
Aquinnah: The Polar Express
There are many things and people to miss and mourn this holiday season, but one thing I will truly miss is the annual Aquinnah...
Writing From the Heart: Patience is a virtue
Patience is a virtue, a phrase believed to have originated from the poem “Piers Plowman,” written in 136O by English poet William Langland. Willie...
Garden Notes: Conjunctions, fruit trees, and summer
Why do you suppose there is so much trash appearing recently along Island roadsides? Just asking. Respect our Island home!
A taste of winter provided...
Dogcharmer: Energetic greetings
Dear Dog Charmer,
We love our new addition, Parmigiano Reggiano (AKA Reggie). He's a happy pup with lots of energy. He's great with our kids,...
This Was Then: Dolph
“I recall Dolph; his job in the winter was to plow the sidewalks after a snowstorm,” remembered the late Stan Lair (1902-1987) of Vineyard...
Have Faith: New year, new hope
Dear Readers: I’ve decided to re-run the column I wrote last year. I find it bittersweet after what 2020 turned out to be.
When I...
Poliana Bellan Wilson: ‘I love to lend a hand to others’
In 2017, Poliana “Poli” Bellan Wilson left her home in Sao Paulo, Brazil to attend a Rotary convention on Martha’s Vineyard. Wilson had been...