Oak Bluffs Town Column
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” —L.M. Montgomery
We survived the nor’easter of May ’25! That was really quite a storm, giving the Island...
Edgartown Town Column
It’s the second year in a row that I skipped Memorial Day Weekend on Martha’s Vineyard, this time trading in New England island time for Caribbean island time, as I flew down to the...
Chilmark Town Column
This week marks the beginning of the summer season, and more doors are open near town hall, the Chilmark Tavern and Chilmark Store. We deeply appreciate the Menemsha Fish Market and Menemsha Texaco for...
Aquinnah Town Column
Last Friday, Charley and I were moved as we watched a big parade of students from Tisbury School march through downtown Vineyard Haven. Some wore big beautiful red, white, and blue hats. Some carried...
West Tisbury Town Column
I love every minute of this time of year, especially the illusion of living in a Wolf Kahn painting as I observe the leaves emerging in our woods. Colors change every day, and light...
Tisbury Town Column
Heard on Main Street: Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Tomorrow’s annual March to the Sea by the schoolchildren to fill the harbor with memorial flowers is a most...
Oak Bluffs Town Column
“Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” —George Carlin
Memorial Day is here! This holiday gives us time to acknowledge and honor those...
Edgartown Town Column
I’m writing this, and it just hit me that Memorial Day weekend is here. Isn’t it the biggest lie when we’re told we have time? Truthfully, we do but we don’t, and I feel...
Chilmark Town Column
The leaves are bursting, and you can see the changes on the main roads. Cooler spots have branches tinged with light green, and the warmer spots are now tunnels enclosed by large, dark green...
Aquinnah Town Column
Last week was a time of change here in Aquinnah. We suffered the loss of a woman who has long been an integral part of our community. Roxanne Ackerman was a mother, a grandmother,...
West Tisbury Town Column
I’m looking out my windows, not wanting to miss a moment as spring changes from its early subtlety to the thickness of summer. We have had just the right combination of sunny days and...
Tisbury Town Column
Heard on Main Street: True friends leave footprints on your heart.
It is a very good feeling to welcome back our summer neighbors. While we may keep in touch over the winter, it is so...
Oak Bluffs Town Column
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." —Mark Twain
I did a little travel last week — just down to the Florida panhandle...
Edgartown Town Column
When I took on this job as your Edgartown columnist, my first question was if I could make it into a food column, to which the powers that be answered, No can do. Which...
Chilmark Town Column
The crush to get things done before June 1 can be hard to push away. Somehow tasks that seem simple can often lead to uncovering something else that needs attending to. It is helping...
Aquinnah Town Column
Due to deadline realities, I am writing several days before our town meeting, and then the election, so I obviously can’t give you any details on who and what got elected. I don’t yet...
West Tisbury Town Column
I am writing on my first day out after being sick. It’s a lovely spring day, pleasantly warm, with no wind. Mary Bohan was here from Old Saybrook, showing her brother and sister-in-law, Micky...
Tisbury Town Column
Heard on Main Street: One or two bumper stickers say a lot about the car owner; too many suggest that the owner is not sure who he is.
This week I had a lovely reminder...
Edgartown Town Column
Living in a seasonal destination like New England truly makes time move at a completely different, and utterly fast, speed. When I used to live in the Dominican Republic, it was an endless summer,...
Chilmark Town Column
Pausing to sit has rewards. Noticed a chickadee bringing tufts to a hole in a tree, perhaps building a nest.
Allergies and ticks are a hard combination, but working the soil feeds my soul.
Wishing everyone...