Jack Shea
How it was
Oak Bluffs summer resident Henry Louis (“Skip”) Gates Jr. has been filling in the blanks of our national race consciousness for decades. Gates, a...
Vineyarders beat Monomoy, 35-7
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) Vineyarders football team got on track in the second half Saturday, improving to 2-2 in the spring...
MVRHS gridders drop tight one to Sandwich
Almost, but not quite.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) gridders dropped a 13-7 rematch to the Sandwich High School Blue Knights last Saturday...
Vineyarders roll over Monomoy
The Vineyarders cruised to their first 2021 spring season victory on Monday with a 42-0 win on the road against an undermanned Monomoy team.
The...
Signs point to new Purple stars out to play
The Vineyarders resumed their football lives last Sunday morning, taking a 14-0 loss from the Sandwich High School Blue Knights, an outing that customarily...
Learning to win in the age of COVID
Vineyarder football is readying for the six-game spring season opener Sunday morning on the road against Sandwich High School (11:30 am kickoff), but the...
High sticks and crosschecks
This is a very good book. It’s not a “hockey” book. “The Mighty Oak” is a complex book, and a morality play about how...
Not for nothin’, but you heard it here first
President Trump saved his worst for last — hopefully — as he careens out the door in the next seven days.
As White House staffers...
Books of 2020
Books have been winning in 2020, one of the few rainbows apparent in our sickened and socially sullen national landscape.
Through three-quarters of 2020, U.S....
Charting the old course
So we’re all looking for good news in the soon-to-be post-Trump and -pandemic world, right?
Here’s an Island read worth your expectations. To be precise,...
Making two Americas one
So last week President-elect Biden tasked Americans with a project: Unify ourselves.
The goal involves talking and interacting with Americans who aren’t like us, who...
‘We’re just one big family now’
We have lots of weddings on this Island. And then there are “Island weddings.” Greg Bettencourt and Amanda (Sullivan) Bettencourt and her 10-year old...
Beginner’s luck?
Michael McAuliffe has written a terrific first novel in “No Truth Left to Tell,” a story of race, police corruption, violent extremism, and the...
Morrison by Weinstein: A collegial journey
One day in 1973, a young, scholarly Phil Weinstein and first-time novelist Toni Morrison, both nervous as cats, shared a stage in Oxford, Miss.
Weinstein...
All-Island School Committee greenlights school COVID testing plan
The All-Island School Committee (AISC) on Tuesday afternoon gave near-unanimous approval to motions authorizing efforts to raise money from the community to help fund...
A good read for hard times
Frank Bergon has made a terrific life for himself as a literary professor, an editor, and author of a handful of novels and several...
Sailing and whaling
In “Whaling Captains of Color: America's First Meritocracy,” Island writer Skip Finley has produced an extraordinary work that will change your perspective on the...
Sankovitch gives us the lowdown
Best-selling author Nina Sankovitch has given us a magnificent, solid work on the life, times and people who helped guide the American colonies to...
One more for the 1,000-point club
Mike McManus was in the Noble & Greenough High School gym in Dedham last Friday, doing what he’s done many times in his adult...
MVRHS skaters fall 7-1 to Dartmouth
Updated March 3
The 12th-seeded Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) boys hockey team dropped a 7-1 verdict to No. 4 seed Dartmouth High School...