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.

Like everyone else in these stay-at-home times, I have been cooking more than I usually do.

Around the first of the year, posters began appearing on public buildings and bulletin boards advertising jobs with the U.S. Census. So I applied.

At the 10th annual Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Golf Classic at the Mink Meadows Golf Club on a gloriously bright late summer day, the pandemic took a back seat to pleasure.

We turned off Moshup Trail into the small parking lot. It was an early April afternoon; our family had been pandemically separate for weeks.