To the Editor: My partner awoke at 4 AM on a mid-August day with a massive headache. He dragged himself out of bed, and went down to Squid Row for his usual 6 am cup of coffee. He very shortly returned home, and promptly fell into bed. This is a man who never, ever misses […]
I thought Tim and Eileen Maley would know, but Eileen only said, “Sometime in the ‘80s.” That is the closest timeframe that anyone seems to remember about the formation of what has been an iconic gathering of artists on the Island these many years. Everyone agrees that Tom and Helen Maley turned their living room […]
Recently there have been a flurry of posts about the old Islander steamship on the social media Facebook site Islanders Talk. Apparently there was nothing in particular to spark the posts, just a random comment that set off an avalanche of remembrances, simply because of the fact that people really had a soft spot for […]
To the Editor: Well, the door is being cracked open even further. I’ve only been here for 50 years, but in that time I’ve watched the suburbanization of Martha’s Vineyard creep in, bit by bit. The issue of the proposed building in Vineyard Meadow Farms is worrisome on a few different levels. I understand the […]