The off-season has provided an emotional challenge for Ben Williams, who graduated last spring from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Recently he discovered that his passion for laying rhyme over rhythm takes the chill off Island winters.
Ben Williams
A plethora of older folks are relishing their golden years on the Island, keeping active by working, volunteering, socializing, and doing everything that makes them happy.
Shelley Christiansen
For many foreign-born Vineyarders, integrating successfully into this community means hours, days, and nights studying and practicing the language.
Julia Rappaport
Without the help of his family, the Vineyard golf community, and other advisers, Tony Grillo might never have capitalized on his own drive to win. Now with two state junior championships in the bag, the Islander begins a new chapter at Harvard.
Jim Kaplan
Steve Ewing – wharf builder, conservationist, family man, poet – tells a story or two about a lifetime on the water, in the city, and on the Vineyard.
Tom Dunlop
When neighborly kindness is extended to tourists, it can be surprising – welcome, but surprising.
Ellen Willson Hoover
The Oak Bluffs summer resident talks about his routines on-Island, racial and class issues on the Vineyard, who will be the next president, and his sexy red tricycle.
Laura D. Roosevelt
Topper could be ornery (you might even say abusive), but a girl who looked beyond his shortcomings found he brought her freedom to roam around Chappaquiddick, taught her about difficult relationships, and contributed to the inner strength that has stuck with her throughout adulthood.
Margaret Knight
