Sixty years ago Edgartown had its Cleaveland Town in the south end and Jernegan Town in the west end, probably so named from the fact that various dwelling houses in the two sections were occupied by families with those well known Vineyard names.

Like most parents, we thought this day might never come. On June 9 our youngest child will graduate from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

I joined a day trip run by the West Tisbury Congregational church to visit Penikese Island, an ancestral hunting land of the Wampanoag, 45 minutes by boat off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

Dear Mom and Dad, things are going great and we have made some strides here on the Island. Here at my place we have completed a number of projects that would be the envy of my neighbors, if there were any.

I never met Rez Williams, the revered Vineyard artist who died in February. Nevertheless, he was a kind of hero for me, an artist rooted in a place and community.