Longtime Island regular Vernon E. Jordan Jr. recently received the 2014 “lifetime achievement award” from American Lawyer magazine for reasons too long to list.
Most of them have played together since grade school. Now in their last year of high school, the varsity boys' soccer team is poised to ... No, no, we don't want to jinx anything.
Ivy Ashe
In 1966 Ward Just was seriously wounded while covering the war in Vietnam for the Washington Post. The following is the story he filed about the incident on July 17 of that year.
Ward Just
Some say his magnificent new work, American Romantic, is his best book yet. But you can bet the writer's eighteenth novel won't be his last. Not even close.
Bill Eville
Just when you thought we would never have good excuse to re-run our favorite picture of legendary Vineyard summer regular John Belushi, we found one.
An Island couple defies the prevailing wisdom that you should never, ever, ever play tennis with your spouse.
Karla Araujo
Ten years after the decision she wrote changed America forever, Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall reflects on democracy, marriage, and her intimate relationship with the Vineyard.
Mary Breslauer
Captain William A. Martin of Edgartown was that rarest of things, an African American Whaling Captain.
As difficult, dangerous, and sometimes financially unrewarding as whaling was, it still beat slavery by miles. By some estimates thirty percent of the thousands of whalers before the Civil War were minorities. A few even overcame all the odds and rose through the ranks to command ships. More than thirty African American whaling captains have been identified, one of whom, William A. Martin, was born on Martha’s Vineyard.
Skip Finley
