Commentary
Autumn’s back, courting dreams.
Just off the coast of Noman’s Land is a rock that once rested on the island.
Climate change is already affecting Martha’s Vineyard.
On the Vineyard as elsewhere, this has been a summer like no other. It’s hard not to feel somewhat safer and calmer here.
It was August 2004 and I had come to Washington to produce an oral history interview for Columbia University’s Women in Law Project.
On March 15, Mildred (Millie) Dowdell died in Florida at the home of her daughter. The Dowdell family has a remarkable legacy on the Island.