Under the shifting clouds and peeking sun on Saturday morning, participants and supporters gathered at Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs to make a recording of the annual reading of escaped slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” This has been a tradition of the Renaissance House, a […]
The Martha’s Vineyard Times won seven first-place awards at the New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA) annual convention Saturday. The awards were presented at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel. The Times won a first-place award for best overall website. The newspaper’s “Voices on Racism” special section received three first-place awards, for best special section, […]
When you walk into Aronie’s decades-old Chilmark Writing Workshop or maybe you stagger in, if you’re as nervous about taking up the wordsmith profession as most of us are in the beginning you’ll immediately be put at ease when the tall, thin, curly-haired, and irrepressibly charming woman explains her plan of attack. Actually, […]
It began when she gave up. Her computer irretrievably and maliciously devoured the first 68 pages of a memoir she was working on, what Nancy Slonim Aronie calls the best piece of writing she had ever done. There was no getting it back. The geniuses at the Genius Bar couldn’t recover it, nor could the […]
The Times asked some longtime Island couples to share some of their best tips and some of their best times together for Valentine’s Day. They all decreed that they enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Eileen and Tim Maley Where and when did you meet? And what were your first impressions of each other? Tim […]