Martha's Vineyard Holly Nadler

A Room of Their Own, Vineyard Retreats Helps Writers Develop

Holly Nadler | Thursday, May 9 2013 - 2:21pm

They come from all over the country, staying for one or two weeks or up to a full month. They explore Edgartown from their home base at the former Point Way Inn. Some of them work in their rooms, others find a nesting spot in one of the many elegant downstairs parlors. For dinner they might bring home scallops from the Net Result, ingredients for a pasta Siciliana, and share the meal pot-luck style in the formal dining room, which is two stories high and lit up like a stage set.

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Three Short Plays Are Long on Island Talent on Script and Stage

Holly Nadler

Once and for all can the question be answered: Can we go home again? Playwrights from Chekhov to Wilder have renewed the debate and, of course, the answer will always have to be Maybe, depending on the place and who was — and may still be — in it.

Bringing the Bard to Today’s Groundlings

Holly Nadler

T here is probably not a soul — not even an Oxford don who’s written his umpteenth thesis on King Lear — who takes Shakespeare so seriously that he can’t enjoy a little fooling around with the canon. Nothing is sacred when it comes to Shakespeare, even though hordes in every generation of theatregoers since the bard lived and wrote (up until he died in 1616) have pretty fairly worshipped him.

As the Trees Start to Turn, a Different Model of Dancing Arrives at the Yard

Holly Nadler

How does a boy from Weaverville, North Carolina, land of cattle ranchers and tobacco farmers, grow up to be a dancer?

Bodhi Path Buddhist Center Marks Tenth Anniversary on the Vineyard

Holly Nadler

End of August, 1999: In hindsight it was a stunning date, in that we had no idea how the coming new millennium would stand our world on its head and make us wonder what planet we were on. It was a perfect time, in other words, for a gently committed center for the study of Buddhism to establish itself on Martha’s Vineyard.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Sees Boomers Redefining Retirement

Holly Nadler

As a prize-winning sociologist and Harvard professor of education, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot possesses the curriculum vitae of one of the most successful women alive — in that achievement-oriented way that we worship in the ambitious classes of America. And yet she radiates the serenity and contemplative qualities of a genuine holy woman.

Former Miss Arkansas Previews Musical

Holly Nadler

In 1965 when Rhonda Coullet (nee Oglesby) was crowned as Miss Arkansas, she decided in the third month of ribbon-cutting that her duties lay on the frivolous side (presumably Queen Elizabeth could jump to this same conclusion, but England isn’t Arkansas). The young beauty queen caught the next ride out of Lafayette County to become a singing star in Hollywood.