People have asked her, in their quest to initiate a program similar to the longstanding summer Camp Jabberwocky, how to go about doing so without any start-up money.

Money? Who needs money?

In the process of promoting Richard Russo’s new novel That Old Cape Magic, local booksellers Dawn Braasch (Bunch of Grapes) and Susan Mercier (Edgartown Books) seem to have tapped into some old Vineyard magic: a sense of cooperation, community and support.

In an interview yesterday over coffee, the two women shared an easy camaraderie. They are fast friends, as comfortable discussing their common business struggles as sharing family updates.

The tent is down, the chairs and tables are gone. And five days after the Possible Dreams auction that raised just over $500,000 for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, Ocean Park is again a place occupied by tourists with ice cream cones and children flying kites.

They are among the greatest storytellers in our country’s history. Tomorrow, they will be gathered in Vineyard Haven to share their colorful tales with Martha’s Vineyard. Of course, the four men weave these tales without a word, and are no longer alive to tell them in person. But their stories live on in their vibrant, expressive artwork.

Somewhere over the rainbow, or perhaps somewhere on a small Island nestled into the Atlantic Ocean a few short miles from the Massachusetts coast, dreams really do come true.

We’ve waited 72 years to meet a princess like Tiana. In the history of Disney’s animated fairy tales, we all know Snow White, Princess Aurora and Cinderella. Belle and Ariel came later, their fair-skinned complexions falling in line with their princess predecessors. In 1992, Disney integrated their princess line-up with the Middle Eastern Jasmine, followed closely by Native American Pocahontas and the Chinese Mulan.