James Dale
Second Acts: Courtney Daly’s second thought
‘Second Acts’ stories are about people who followed one career or profession or path, but found it was not their passion, not their fulfillment....
Berni’s stand
When the house next door went up for sale, it didn’t alarm Mary Bernadette Budinger-Cormie, known as “Berni.” It happens all the time on...
Second Acts: Zachary Townes
“When I grow up, I want to be a policeman.” Think of how many little kids say that. Most, as they get older, find...
Second Acts: Stephanie Browne
Stephanie Browne’s labor of love — introducing others to the joys of good wine — has brought together two very significant, but seemingly unrelated...
Second Acts: Morgen Schroeder
“If I can wax poetic about cheese for a second …”
After you study civil engineering in college, and pursue a career in construction in...
Second Acts: Lucian Nastasi
Lucian Nastasi considers himself lucky. Lucky that he was raised by a loving Romanian family who valued education. Lucky he learned to speak English...
Second Acts: Jovana Balaban
How does a young woman from a landlocked Eastern European country, educated to become a literature and language teacher, end up a serial entrepreneur...
Second Acts: NaDaizja Bolling
From as long as she can remember, NaDaizja Bolling spent her summers on Martha’s Vineyard. Raised near Boston, she went off to Syracuse University...
Second Acts: Irene Ziebarth and Doug West
Doug West began coming to Martha’s Vineyard in summers as a kid, back in 1952, and later his family bought a cottage in Oak...
Second Acts: Jocelyn Coleman Walton
“My grandmother, Luella Coleman, came to the Vineyard as a domestic and through perseverance and vision, she bought a house. And I spent every single summer...
A sobering conversation on opiates, addiction
“One kid died and the other was on his way to federal prison for five and a half years for having furnished him...
Second Acts: Jennifer DaSilva
For most people, taking a work break means not working. But for Jennifer DaSilva, it means coming up with her next line of work....
Second Acts: Heidi Feldman
Usually this column is about someone who, at some point in life, finds a new and different path — a second act. But today’s...
Second Acts: Debbie Hale
“From the first time I tried it, it spoke to me; it just spoke to my soul and made me look at everything differently.”...
Second Acts: Jason Mazar-Kelly
Downward dog. Form 1040. Chakra. Itemized deductions. Asana. Total taxable income. Mantra. Quarterly estimates. Namaste. Yoga and tax jargon — terms you don’t often...
Second Acts: Leigh Cormie
It seems Leigh Cormie was destined to end up on Martha’s Vineyard. He certainly didn’t plan it. If his itinerary from Czechoslovakia, where he’d...
Second Acts: Whitney Hanschka
In the mid-1980s, Whitney Hanschka graduated from Stanford University in mechanical engineering — the stuff of aerospace, biotech, and robotics — no doubt on...
Second Acts
This installment of Second Acts started out as a profile on Steve Ewing, dockbuilder-poet. If ever there was a Vineyarder finding his “other self,”...
Second Acts: Sometimes they come early
Often it takes years to find your second act. A lifetime of living or working in one direction, and finally discovering your inner calling...
Second Acts: Gerry Yukevich
Is there something that is inherently Martha’s Vineyard that fosters the freedom to pursue our other selves — our talents, drives, and passions? The...