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It was a pleasant evening last July, and the Grange Hall in West Tisbury was filling up with family and friends of high school and middle sc...
Monthly archives:June 2016
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I have in my hands the first issue of Sports Illustrated, launched 62 years ago on August 16, 1954. The cover photo is titled “Night Basebal...
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Doug Kent, in his West Tisbury Gallery, with one of his Mind Series paintings. Photograph by Lynn Christoffers.
Quantum leap:
In physic...
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Dan VanLandingham of West Tisbury was already an accomplished painter of Vineyard landscapes when he set out to advance his work with a M.F....
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Dick Iacovello ended his U.S. Army tour of duty in Vietnam in the fall of 1963.
He would spend the next 45 years exorcising the demons of h...
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Nicholas Negroponte has been a herald of the digital era, and authored the best-selling “Being Digital” (1995), about the growth and future ...
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There’s nothing subtle about the work of artist Basia Jaworska. She creates poster-size paintings — larger-than-life portraits in vibrant co...
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I found a bone at Felix Neck in February. It was poking out of the cold earth at the base of a tree, so I dislodged it and took it to th...
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The urge to conserve the natural world originates in loss: Until something valued and familiar is perceived as dwindling, who has any need f...
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“People were ballooning in from the Azores,” joked Chris Morse, owner of the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury. The word on the street was ...