A new book celebrates the life and work of Island writer Peggy Freydberg, who died this spring at the age of one hundred and seven.
Alexandra Bullen Coutts
Thirty years in the life of an Island painting.
Tom Dunlop
Rockers where the porch was bareInvite the springtime derrièreTo sit awhile and smell the air.The chores can wait; there’s time to spare!
D.A.W.
You can Google all you want, but no one is going to tell you that the Oak Bluffs harbor is dead tonight and you should head to the Ritz instead. After all, local is as local does.
Remy Tumin
To those who’ve been here long enough, it is known as “the yellow book,” a definitive history of the steamships and ferries that have sailed to and from the mainland going back to the start of the service, two centuries ago. Written by Paul C. Morris and Joseph Morin of Nantucket and published in 1977, The Island Steamers is a big, sprawling, somewhat roughly hewn coffee table book with the steamer Nobska on the cover, pounding her way from Oak Bluffs to Nantucket in the early 1970s.
Tom Dunlop
Thomas Craven was the leading art historian of his day, and his Vineyard friend Thomas Hart Benton was his favorite artist.
Elizabeth Hawes
Steve Spofford’s latest career began with an internet photo gone viral.
Author Ted Hoagland – possibly the best writer you’ve never heard of, and certainly the most lauded man of letters living in Edgartown - never aspired to retire on the Island. But then again, he hasn't really retired.
Alexandra Bullen Coutts
