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2 weeks ago | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
A grammar school, a historic church and a high school performing arts center: what do these three locations have in common? On Tuesday, they will each play an integral role in the ongoing democratic traditions of the Island. Town meeting season is here again, and opens on April 8 in West Tisbury, Edgartown and Oak Bluffs. On Tuesday, voters will travel to the West Tisbury School, the Old Whaling Church and the Performing Arts Center to debate in public on matters essential to the towns.
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3 weeks ago | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
The Goss Community Press, which prints the Vineyard Gazette each week, rolled onto the Island and was delivered to 34 South Summer street on April 18, 1975 and completed its first print run on May 9, 1975. This puts the old workhouse at 50 years old; definitely a birthday to celebrate.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist, playwright, author and screenwriter, whose satirical wit and illustrations were for a time the voice of the Village Voice, and syndicated in hundreds of newspapers around the country, died on Jan. 17. He was 95. Mr. Feiffer was a longtime Vineyarder who divided his time between here and New York City. He was a fixture in both worlds, a regular in the literary society of New York and at events all over the Island.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
The year’s first full moon is called the Wolf Moon. But fear not, wolves are not on the agenda next week when the moon is full. Instead, owls are the main event, thanks to Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary’s Full Moon Owl Prowl. The prowl takes place on Monday, Jan. 13, and will be led by Sydney Pigott, an experienced hand with owls. Ms. Pigott is the education coordinator and camp director at Felix Neck and has led the full moon tours for three years.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
Percival Everett won the National Book Award for his novel James, a retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave, Jim’s, perspective. A longtime summer visitor to the Vineyard, Mr. Everett accepted the award in New York on Wednesday. Mr. Everett took part in the Martha’s Vineyard Author series this past season, discussing his career and the novel.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
Virginia (Ginny) Jones, whose roots in West Tisbury were as strong and deep as her love for the town and for a way of life on the Vineyard she feared was disappearing, died on Nov. 13. She was 82. Her daughter Caitlin Jones said her mother died at home. “Right up to the end she was troubleshooting Island problems,” her daughter said. “That was her blood and bones and default mode — to address the problems of the Island.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kate Altman lived in Los Angeles, in particular the Laurel Canyon area, an epicenter of art and music and film. One night, while sitting at a bar with a young German filmmaker named Wim Wenders, she was asked if she would like to work on his latest film as the art director. It was to be shot in Texas and Mr. Wenders was still new to the U.S. and felt he needed “an American eye.”Ms. Altman had never worked on a film before and said no, but Mr. Wenders persisted.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
During her long career at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum as its oral historian, Linsey Lee has interviewed over 1,000 Islanders, giving voice to their lives and stories. The interview that got her started, done for an Irish folklore course in college, was with Craig Kingsbury of Vineyard Haven, an Island character who inspired Robert Shaw’s legendary role as Quint the shark chaser in Jaws.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
The mornings have turned chilly and the dog, always a lazy sort who likes to sleep in, has burrowed under the covers, lying in bed with my daughter. Only his head is visible, resting on a pillow, his ears covering his eyes like a sleep mask. It is clear he wants no part of this new early morning routine, the return of school after a carefree summer. Neither do I, but for different reasons than sleeping in.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Bill Eville
The mornings have turned chilly and the dog, always a lazy sort who likes to sleep in, has burrowed under the covers, lying in bed with my daughter. Only his head is visible, resting on a pillow, his ears covering his eyes like a sleep mask. It is clear he wants no part of this new early morning routine, the return of school after a carefree summer. Neither do I, but for different reasons than sleeping in.
