Perhaps the single most incontrovertible element we all share is that we are getting older, no matter what our age. Here on the Vineyard, 1 in 3 Islanders is currently over 60; by 2025, it is estimated that up to 25 percent of adults over 60 will be 85 or older. That’s according to Healthy […]
Virginia Stone attacks the early pandemic with a keen eye for the changes it wrought in our everyday lives, with both compassion and humor. Her show, “COVID Up-Island,” at the West Tisbury library, looks through a local lens of the familiar at an experience that was far from it. Barred from her usual figure drawing […]
Islanders Write brings together writers and publishing professionals with ties to the Vineyard to speak about various genres and aspects of writing and the writing life. Since the first Islanders Write in 2014, the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore has been at the event, selling books and hosting author signings. While all the speakers at the […]
While the population at this exclusive venue jumps to 200,000 in the summer, it’s also home to a small but growing year-round population of about 17,000. Like the lighthouses that dot the island’s coasts, Chabad will be there for the long, bustling summer days and the equally long, star-studded winter nights.
When you walk into Aronie’s decades-old Chilmark Writing Workshop or maybe you stagger in, if you’re as nervous about taking up the wordsmith profession as most of us are in the beginning you’ll immediately be put at ease when the tall, thin, curly-haired, and irrepressibly charming woman explains her plan of attack. Actually, […]