Gail Gardner
Edgartown: Martha’s Vineyard Museum summer season
I’m starting to get emotional these days. Given all the graduations and special events going on lately, it was bound to catch up to...
Edgartown: Class Night
My baby graduated high school today. Or at least that’s what it feels like. In reality, it was my 17-year-old son, graduating right on...
Edgartown: Recital weekend
We are through recital weekend! It is always such a crazy busy weekend, between prepping and extra rehearsals and performances. These young women, girls,...
Edgartown: March to the Sea
We had a beautiful day for the annual March to the Sea last Friday afternoon. It was warm and sunny, with enough breeze to...
Edgartown: Fun and excitement on tap
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the MV Marathon and Half Marathon on Saturday. I waited along the route for my friends and...
Edgartown: Birding weekend
Happy May. It is May, right? It certainly seemed like it on Saturday. Not so much on Sunday. Spring is trying to get its...
Edgartown: Screaming for spring
I was driving down the West Tisbury Road the other night, and the pinkletinks at Sweetened Water Pond were incredibly loud. I could hear...
Edgartown: Take the trip
I have a confession to make. April vacation was amazing. We don’t do the vacation thing very often. The last “real” vacation was Disney...
Edgartown: Celebrity Waiters Dinner
It’s vacation week. What a wonderful way to recover from campaigning and politicking. Maybe I can actually get my yearbook done this week. It’s...
Edgartown: Live from Lowell Memorial Auditorium
I’m writing this week from Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Dance competition is a lot about hurry up and wait, so I’ve learned to bring work...
Edgartown: Bird-a-Thon fundraiser
Happy April. I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Our kids are 15, 17, and 18, and they still enjoyed an Easter egg hunt...
Edgartown: March for Our Lives
Tonight has proved to be a very interesting night in our household. Riley and Amelia both went off-Island this weekend. Riley had his yearly...
Edgartown: Women’s weekend
I’ve just returned home from the Rise showcase, the local performance of the dance company’s competition pieces. And it finally hit me. These little...
Edgartown: Dodged the storm
I have to brag a little bit this week. No, not about my kids. This time I’m so excited to share that I traveled...
Edgartown: In like a lion
Wow, what a storm. For the most part, I’m happy that I missed it, except for the fact that I wasn’t here to help...
Edgartown: February break is here
February break is here. I think it is the quietest week of the year on this Island of ours. Staff and kids alike flew...
Edgartown: A movement afoot
I’ve now been writing this column again for a year and a half, I think, and this is the first time that I truly...
Edgartown: Beep your horn
Today was the 100th day of school. It is always a very exciting day, particularly in kindergarten where they have a 100th day museum....
Edgartown: Letdown of a wild weekend
I’m writing this week in the letdown of a wild weekend. We were off-Island for most of the weekend for a dance competition, and...
Edgartown: Go Pats
While snow is on the horizon as I write this late entry into the town column section for the paper, I’m still treasuring the...