In January, Vineyarders Julia MacNelly and Tom Ellis are headed to Serbia to spend a month filming for a documentary.

With summer over, the Island is peaceful. Life had hardly been peaceful, however, for many in the part of Europe where I was traveling.

Bill Shipsey, founder of Art for Amnesty, a program of Amnesty International, organized a human chain around the Edgartown Lighthouse last week in advance of a major human chain project in Italy this weekend.

In 2008, friends said I mustn’t visit Syria. It was much too dangerous. But I wanted to see the walled Old City of Damascus.