A dedication of the community program room at the new West Tisbury Free Public Library was held in honor of David and Rosalee McCullough.
Vineyard resident and award-winning author and historian David McCullough was lauded by Suffolk University with an honorary Doctor of Hu
David McCullough laughingly calls the pretty little eight-by-10-foot structure in his back yard his “world headquarters.” Naturally, he was keen to pass on the details of its architecture and history.
“This is where I’ve worked since 1972,” he said. “It was built by Alan Miller, an artist with carpentry. He built the Black Dog in Vineyard Haven. He built numerous buildings around the Island, all distinctive.”
Presidential Medal of Freedom Awarded to David McCullough
David McCullough, the prize-winning historian and West Tisbury resident whose acclaimed works of nonfiction have all been written from his home off Music street, will receive the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony next week.
An August David McCullough Carries Audience Back in Time
By James Kinsella
Gazette Senior Writer
Millions of American minds carry the image: George Washington, resplendent in uniform, resolute in countenance, gazing steadfastly ahead, the Stars and Stripes partly unfurled behind him, the boatmen pushing ice cakes away from the rowboat in which he is standing.
Save the ice cakes, it is an image that is almost totally inaccurate, historian David McCullough said.
The eminent biographer and historian who is a year-round resident of the Vineyard, won the Pulitzer Prize this week for his biography of John Adams.