Holly Nadler
The Island’s great writing guru
When you walk into Aronie’s decades-old Chilmark Writing Workshop — or maybe you stagger in, if you’re as nervous about taking up the wordsmith...
Meet the mentalist
Is he a comedian? Or a psychic? Well, he’s both, ladies and gentlemen, bearing in mind that on this upcoming Sunday, Oct. 17, from...
A guide for happier times
This new travel book, offered by Schiffer Publishing of Atglen, Pa., a company that’s been putting out fine guidebooks for years, is a tad...
‘Happier Days!’ are here again
You’d think there would be more father-son comedy duos. Did Lenny Bruce sire any kids? What about Jay Leno? (To answer those questions in...
Straight to the heart
This is the best book I’ve ever read.
Better than “War And Peace,” you might ask? Or “The Sun Also Rises” or “Anne of Green...
Recreating history
You know artist Margot Datz’s murals at the two Steamship terminals: In Vineyard Haven, a schemata of a wavelet-spewed harbor, sailboats, docks, and puffy...
Close Encounters: The Wilsons
It started with a hug a few weeks ago, to wit my first nonfamily, post-vac, full-on nuzzle of this bright new season of hope...
Good for your gut
You might be wondering what in the blue blazes is SIBO, so listen up: Those letters stand for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, and awardwinning...
Bewitching cookbook
A young woman who’s been summering on the Vineyard for all of her supernally natural life, namely Lisanna Wallance, has a positive genius for...
Hair-raising history
Some 26 years ago, the first collection of Island ghost stories arrived on our shores, or more specifically our bookshelves. “Haunted Island,” from Down...
At Home with the Oslyns
If a pair of rom-com script writers were given the task of bringing the romance of Gina Patti and Rob Oslyn of Oak Bluffs...
An essential summer cookbook
When Nan Rheault, originally of Connecticut, then of the world, and finally of Oak Bluffs, befriended you, you stayed befriended. It was as magical...
Close Encounters: Brian Hughes and Lisa Rohn
The one thing you can depend on with old friends — excruciatingly old, as in 28 years of knowing each other — is that...
Close Encounters: A night with Nancy Aronie
Nancy Aronie, 78, NPR commentator, author, columnist, and writing workshop doyenne, is to be my subject for a night spent in the sipping of...
Close Encounters: Lee McCormack
“Lee, you look great!”
It’s a standard greeting, women love to reassure our pals that they’re ready for their close-up.
And Lee McCormack does look great....
Suzanne Rheault’s wild and precious life
This woman has been around the world, by her own admission, a few too many times, but her exciting and checkered past has yielded...
Home is where her heart is
For some obscure reason, Oak Bluffs as a vacation destination fails to receive the love that attaches itself to Edgartown and some of the...
Ghost writers
When I first began to track down Vineyard ghost stories, the boom in bumpy things — bumpy as in “things that go bump in...
Bitters are better
Islander Zephir Plume is an adept of culinary arts and herbal medicine, a farmer, a forager, and a soon-to-be mama. On a recent midday...
At the Ag Fair, with Charlie, my angel
More than a trip to Disney World, more than the celebration of Christmas, for Vineyarders the annual four-day Agricultural Fair grounds us in the...