Arts & Entertainment
For four days in two locations, 22 of the country’s leading authors and thinkers gathered for the biennial Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival.
Tom Maley founded the Field Gallery in 1971 in the West Tisbury field behind his family’s home with fellow artists Robert Schwartz, Eleanor Coen and Max Kahn. Chris and Sheila Morse own the gallery today.
The popular art show and collectible sale has been postponed due to concerns over the Delta variant of Covid, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services announced.
Here on the Island, for many living is an art form and here artists abound.
Island artist Margot Datz, known for her fanciful images of animals, people and mermaids as well as larger-scale murals, brought a new crop of paintings to the Grange Hall on Saturday.
A book festival audience turned out Friday evening for a panel discussion on the Martha’s Vineyard Museum lawn with three of the country’s leading journalists.

