Monthly Archives: June 2022
Outdoor movies at Featherstone start up
With summer arrive Featherstone outdoor movies once again. Called “Summer Trips and Treats,” the Featherstone series is a collaboration with the M.V. Film Society...
Around the Writers’ Table: Writing about yourself
Last week, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, the principal and vice chancellor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, gave a commencement address to...
Music makers
In the mid-’90s, several singers got together and approached Peter Boak about forming an Islandwide singing group dedicated to choral works, and to present...
It’s time to expand the court
To the Editor:
When Donald Trump was in office, he and Mitch McConnell made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. McConnell went so far...
Gardens among friends
Collaboration makes the Family2Family’s huge holiday food giveaways run smoothly, according to organizer Betty Burton. Three times a year, this Vineyard Committee on Hunger...
Aquinnah: Music and food
I don’t know about you, but after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade and the deaths of so many people by guns...
Oak Bluffs: Fourth of July weekend!
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with freedom.” –Bob Dylan
I’m kind of in shock that I am writing about the...
Black Lives Matter Sunday vigil
Join MV BLM for a vigil honoring Black and Indigenous people harmed by police and/or the criminal justice system on Sunday, July 3, at...
Rocco’s rocks
A cozy night in, a group dinner on the beach, or a tasty midnight snack, pizza is the perfect food, and Rocco’s Pizzeria does...
COVID cases surge
The Island remains at medium risk for the spread of COVID-19, even as cases have increased over the past week. The number of positive...
Lots of dancing in ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’
The delightful “Cha Cha Real Smooth” begins at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, July 1. Although the title is a bit kookie, this...
What Are You Watching? ‘Julia’
After having seen “Julie and Julia,” the Oscar-nominated film starring Meryl Streep, and a raft of documentaries about Julia Child, I watched “Julia,” an...
Births
Larkin Vaughn Peach
Lily Walter and Ian Peach of Chappaquiddick announce the birth of a son, Larkin Vaughn Peach, in Concord, N.H., on May 21,...
Academic honors
Graduation
Katharine Roberts of Vineyard Haven, from Hamilton College.
Chilmark: Smell the wild roses
It's that scentious time of year where you can't help stopping to smell the wild roses and honeysuckle, and drive with the windows down...
Poet’s Corner
The Flying Horses Carousel
(For "Children Young at Heart”)
By Robert Ferriman
The Flying Horses Carousel
still today is found
In Oak Bluffs Massachusetts
going round and round,
Children of all...
School’s out for summer
As of noon Monday, the Tisbury School and public schools across the Vineyard were officially out for summer. The end of school was marked...
Dogcharmer: Post-Covid separation anxiety
Dear Tom,
I got my dog, Girlie, from the Susquehanna SPCA last December. She is a Rottweiler/Australian shepherd mix, about 7 years old. She has...
Tisbury settles with Roman
Former Tisbury Police Sgt. Kindia Roman has settled with the town of Tisbury, with former Tisbury Police Chief Mark Saloio, and with Tisbury Police...
Tisbury: Wonderful people
Heard on Main Street: “Reading gives us something to do when we have to stay somewhere.”
We are so blessed with the wonderful people who...