Jessie Royce Hill
A Dancer and His Patron Build New Program, and Studio, Here
By JESSIE ROYCE HILL
In an airy studio redolent of newly sanded wood and fresh paint, 15 teenage dancers surround the floor, their eyes fixed upon a legendary dancer.
Author, Author! President Draws Throng to Store for Autographs
By JESSIE ROYCE HILL
They turned up in droves - and rain slickers - yesterday morning, snaking along Main street in Vineyard Haven for a chance to shake hands with the man whose name many wished were appearing on the ballot this November.
Former President Bill Clinton signed nearly 900 copies of his memoir, My Life, at the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Monday. The store was prepared to hand out 1,000 tickets to customers but ran out of books along the way.
Under the Party Tents, a Tasting of Summer
$175,000 Is Raised in Two-Day Event to Benefit Trust
By JESSIE ROYCE HILL
It is one of the Vineyard's few events at which everyone wears shoes. Tasseled, pointy, strappy and high. They call it a stroll, but the women, in their pink and green Lilly Pulitzer ensembles, more likely teeter from vendor to vendor as they withdraw their heels from the fresh grass into which they've sunk. The gentlemen, a formation of navy blazers and bowties, outpace them.
Beyond Differences: Island Families Are Enriched by Adoptions
By JESSIE ROYCE HILL
Sometimes they get funny looks in town when they are walking with their children. People ask insensitive questions just because their children don't resemble them. Are you their real parent? Are they really brother and sister?
On an Island predominantly white, a number of couples and singles have chosen to adopt children of color, bringing diversity into their homes and community.
"Ten years ago we started an infertility group.
On Dutcher Dock: Menemsha's Seismic Shift: A Fish Market Faces Sale
By JESSIE ROYCE HILL
In a place where generations of fishermen have hawked their seafood, fathers and sons yearly descend to cast lines off the jetty and summer crowds have applauded the glow of a setting sun, the news is out: Stand by for the sale of a landmark Island fish market.