“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?” Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s February, and love is in the air. But this year, Featherstone Center for the Arts has expanded its love-related theme to “Love, Laugh, Leap, Live!” Executive director Ann Smith says, “We just felt […]
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,” it’s Steve, a man who drives 20-foot pilings into sand and mud and then goes home to express his feelings in iambic pentameter. But in exploring Steve’s expressive journey, it became […]
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, […]
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 […]