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We know you’re still basking in the glow of another successful summer on Martha’s Vineyard. Some of our favorite traditions were back in full swing, with no restrictions — the Oak Bluffs fireworks, the Ag Fair, the Edgartown fireworks and parade among them. We were pleased to be able to attend some great public events at […]
Just two months after the passing of his beloved Rosalee, awardwinning author and noted historian David McCullough has died. McCullough, 89, and his family had a home in West Tisbury. According to the New York Times, McCullough was at his Hingham home when he died Sunday. “We are so sad, but what a life,” his […]
Between reading Catherine Walthers’ Edible Vineyard story on World Central Kitchen (bit.ly/evworldkitchen) and George Brennan’s story on “Covering the Russian Invasion of Ukraine” at last weekend’s Islanders Write (bit.ly/mvtlongwar), I’m convinced I don’t know as much as I should about the conflict in Ukraine. And I definitely am not doing enough to help. Whenever there […]
The Martha’s Vineyard Times–sponsored conference Islanders Write returned to Featherstone Center for the Arts last weekend, after a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus. Attendees of five panel discussions held on Sunday heard the expertise, advice, and candor of writers, creatives, and publishing executives, who offered a way forward in an industry that can be daunting and isolating. […]
The video showed a woman who looked like she could be a grandmother. Instead of knitting a baby bonnet, she was crafting a cover for a grenade. In the next scene, she showed off a stash of molotov cocktails — on standby should Russian troops come to her neighborhood. There was nervous laughter from those […]