Martha's Vineyard Books & Ideas

The Expanding Palate of Food Writing

Louisa Hufstader | Thursday, August 12 2021 - 4:46pm

A sell-out crowd of more than 200 people took their seats at café-style tables at the museum talk about the Changing Story of American Home Cooking, sponsored by Cook the Vineyard, a Vineyard Gazette publication.

Cook the Vineyard

Poet Billy Collins Returns

Billy Collins is back for his biennial tour of the Island. Mr. Collins touches down on Sunday, June 9 at Featherstone Center of the Arts for a reading that is guaranteed to be funny, poignant, wry, tender and everything in between.

Simon Calendar Continues in 2020

Bill Eville

The annual Peter Simon calendar, a rite of passage since 1988, will continue in 2020 with a special edition.

Live, Learn, Grow

As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Vineyard chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Health has organized numerous events around the Island.

Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Louisa Hufstader

Justen Ahren has always been a musician as well as a writer, releasing his first album Remembering more than 20 years ago.

Magazine Writer Wins Award

Nelson Sigelman won a first-place award from The New England Outdoor Writers Association for a story he wrote for the Martha’s Vineyard Magazine.

When Mixing Wine and Marlboros Makes Creative Sense

Landry Harlan

Frank Bergon, author of the new book Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man: The New Old West, began researching the book in 2011 during bi-annual summer trips to the high deserts of California’s San Joaquin Valley where he was raised on a ranch.