Holly Nadler
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...
A turtle named Sue, well, Johnny Sue
Updated August 8
The achy-breaky heart part about adopting a turtle for a pet is that, cute as they are, they will never reciprocate our...
The frame inspires the painting in magical mind of Margot Datz
She is an artist of incandescent talent, and a woman of the same caliber of charm. Margot Datz and I are roughly the same...
The heart of Harthaven
Most people in advanced elder age tell you “All my friends are dead!” This was far from the case last Thursday, July 11, at...
Building confidence
To meet the pretty and devilishly petite 48-year-old with pale skin, vivid green eyes and floaty red hair is to become best friends for...
A living legend
The following is reprinted with permission from Holly Nadler’s book “Vineyard Confidential.” “She approved every word before I used it in the book,” Nadler...