From Teacup Request to Tempest

Singing in the Morning

Memorial Day 2010

Seen by the side of the road in North Tisbury this week: a photographer in jeans and a T-shirt training his long lens deep into a meadow of white daisies and bluebonnets. Stippled with late afternoon light, the exquisite flowering spring meadow spills out through a line of roadside split rails as if to say, don’t fence me in!

Jump for Joy

It is by far the Island’s largest conservation property, more than five thousand acres spread across the Vineyard’s ample middle, sp

Pay the Price

This week, as estimates of the cost of cleaning up the massive oil slick off the Gulf Coast stretched above ten billion dollars, with no clear way to stanch the pollution now visible from space, irreparably harming marine life and devastating the regional economy there, Cape Wind announced a deal to sell half the power generated from its planned turbines in Nantucket Sound to the energy delivery company National Grid. The cost of our monthly electricity bills would increase by less than two dollars.