Last spring, Ken Greene, the founder of the country’s first community seed library, came to the Vineyard to help lead a seed saving workshop.
It is interesting how we remember things. As a nutritionist, my nostalgic thoughts often turn to food. Was food and nutrition simpler back then, I...
“Snowfall will be above normal in most of the Northeast, although below normal in much of New England.” So said the Old Farmer’s Almanac for the...
Parties are different on the Island in February. There’s an almost imperceptible clouding of the atmosphere; a tincture of desperation underlies the...
Anyone who thinks it is impossible to get things done quickly on Martha’s Vineyard hasn’t met the women behind the Island Wide Youth Collaborative.
In the book Bowling Alone, author Robert Putnam described the phenomenon of communities losing the very essence of what made them great, or at least...
We have a compost pile at our home in Chilmark, with its advantages (healthier soil) and disadvantages (varmints).
As a parent of a high school athlete, I am baffled by the push back on creating an athletic field for the youth on the Vineyard.
The other day I found myself on the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road about tenth in a line of slow moving traffic.
From the April 24, 1959 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
For the second consecutive season the anglers were blessed with favorable weather on the opening day of the trout season, which was Saturday. Island anglers were abroad in force, complaining only that the weather was a trifle on the raw side, what with a southeast wind breezing, but otherwise perfect. A temperature not too low, and moderately overcast skies, are appreciated by early trout fishermen.
