It’s official: I’ve been writing this column for a little over a month, and haven’t been asked to stop yet! Thank you to everyone who has bumped into me lately and mentioned they’ve read at least a few lines here or there. (If I’m lucky they might even admit to laughing, or learning something new about Tisbury.) With this weekend being Father’s Day, I want to give a super-big shout-out to my dad: Bruce Stone. Edgartown resident, best known in West Tisbury, and frequent golfer at Tisbury’s…
Touring Polly Hill is a sensory delight. Bird song fills the air as you walk past flowering trees and plants whose rich smells waft across your path as you take in one beautiful vista after another. A glorious way to enrich your experience is to take one of their many staff- or docent-led arboretum tours. I attended an engrossing spotlight tour led by curator and Assistant Director Emily Ellingson, who first grounded us in Polly Hill’s history as we gathered around the Japanese Snowbell,…
A friend of mine approached me and told me that a neighbor of people he knew had recently been put on probation for child sexual abuse. Particularly parents of young children were frightened for the safety of their children. “As a psychiatrist, what can you tell me about that?” he asked. It is terrifying to think that our children could be the victims of sexual violations. At the same time, it is neither useful nor healthy for children (or their parents) to be instilled with a generalized…
Edgartown June 9, David G. Makowski and Terri East sold property off 0 Clevelandtown Road to the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission for $50,000. June 10, Kay Dong sold 0 Harborside Inn Condo Unit 516 Week 23 and Unit 517 Week 23 to Timothy Santoro and Ellie Farahabadi for $9,000. June 11, Kenneth C. Williams and Leslie A. O’Brien, trustees of O’Brien-Williams Family Trust, sold 29 Majors Cove Lane to Nicole Parent Haughey and Philip C. Haughey Jr. for $4,500,000. …
“There is no life that does not contribute to history.” –Dorothy West Dorothy West was born in June 1907. She started writing in her teens, was part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, and became one of the few Black women to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and ’40s. In 1948, after moving to Martha’s Vineyard, she wrote her first novel, and she also started a weekly column about Oak Bluffs in the Vineyard Gazette. I think about Dorothy West a lot — the…
The woman who wrote about her 30th birthday party, who couldn’t leave the house and didn’t want to “forc[e] other people to as well,” is the same woman who wrote a collection of essays that were recently published in “Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress” (St. Martin’s Press) that is so deeply personal, she can only be commended as a hero for her courage. Cazzie David, a self-claimed “nepo baby,” — yes, she’s the daughter of Larry David and Laurie David — has written…
Megan Willey, class of 2003, loved school. She was a strong academic student, and felt that the community she experienced in school, which taught her how to build lasting relationships, was the foundation for her eventual pursuit in a successful career. At Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS), she played three sports — soccer, ice hockey, and lacrosse — for nearly all four years. Megan also had a wonderful group of friends, many of whom are still close to her today. This seems to…
The title of A.V. Rockwell’s film, “A Thousand and One,” speaks to the many struggles 22-year-old Inez (Tenyana Taylor) faces as she tries to raise her son in New York City in the late 1990s and 2000s. The M.V. Film Center is screening this thoroughly engrossing feature on June 19 in honor of Juneteenth. Inez is fierce, speaks her mind, and is quick to anger. We meet her in 1994 at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, styling a fellow inmate’s hair just before Inez is released from prison.…
I go away for two weeks, leaving the Island barely awake, and come back this week to a town filled to the brim with visitors and friends! The season is here, and I’m excited to welcome everyone back to Edgartown for another incredible summer. This is the time that the column writes itself, as the days are packed with things to do, places to visit, shops to support, food to eat, beverages to drink, and events to celebrate. New this year is the Vineyard Style Night, a fashion show fundraiser…
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