On a cold April morning in 1970, I stood in the Felix Neck barn with high school students on a field trip.

Part of my summer ritual for the last 30 years is a final bike ride, coasting down the hill from our Oak Bluffs cottage.

A vexed subject in Vineyard history came up last week with the difficulty in deciding whether a particular hillside in the East Chop region was a park, a mysteriously named “plaza,” or just ordinary private property.

Kib Bramhall is a member of a rarefied fraternity, he embodies the Vineyard fishing culture he embraced when he arrived on the Island at age 12 in 1945.

On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.