Several weeks ago, at American Legion Hall 257 in Vineyard Haven, we honored two World War II warriors who had died.

So symptomatic of his life, it seems there’s not been much notice this year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest authors, Herman Melville.

There You Are by Mathea Morais is a touching and fiercely intelligent book.

It is not the old guard leading the local climate activism charge.