Chris Fischer’s cookbook, published last spring, was honored this week with a James Beard Award for American Cooking.

The Martha’s Vineyard Concert Series will feature, among others, Alan Cumming, Erin Brockovich, Paula Poundstone and the return of David Sedaris. Adam Epstein is the producer.

Shakespeare for the Masses will perform three, yes three, Shakespeare plays in one hour — Richard II and Henry IV, parts one and two.

On Wednesday afternoon Miss Lani sat on the floor with a group of young children at the children’s art studio.

In 1885 Parnell Smith Pease of the Vineyard joined her husband on a whaling trip aboard the Alaska. Her diary is up for auction on Thursday at Swann Auction Galleries in New York city.

I was one of three boys growing up. We ate a lot of meat, compared scars, had pushup contests and wrestled competitively.