In the early 1970s, I spent summers working at Poole’s Fish Market in Menemsha.

Memories are sparked in many ways, connecting life and lives in circles at times concentric but not always touching.

A ferocious blizzard that brought down trees, knocked out power and left Islanders huddling by their wood stoves.

If Martha's Vineyard's state legislators hoped to provoke action by the Steamship Authority by filing a bill that would change its management structure, then their strategy seems to be working.

It is February and it would be nice if it were warmer.