Mathea Morais is the author of the children’s book: <i>I’m Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo</i> that features an afterword by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall. Mathea also runs the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School’s High School Writing Lab and has taught creative writing for more than 10 years on Martha’s Vineyard and in Boston. Mathea's freelance work has been published in online and print magazines such as Trace Magazine and Inshop.com. She has a BA in English from New York University. Mathea lives in Chilmark with her three daughters and husband, painter Chioke R. Morais.
Today is the first day of the Ag Fair poster contest, the last day of the West Tisbury Poet Laureate contest and Clifford the Big Red Dog is still here.
Chili? Hot wings? Nachos? Beer battered cod? Send us your favorite recipes for game day eats and we’ll share them with the rest of the Island!
Today is Knit Along Monday, the children’s Chess Club meets and there is a community supper in Edgartown
The Martha's Vineyard Boards of Health present the MD Overview
Today's poem is "Passage" by Lee McCormack, Cleaveland House Poet
It's time to prove how well you know the Island!
There’s a walk on the North Shore, Sunday Projects at the Farm Institute and an Occupy MV meeting at the Howes House today
Around the world, folks are reading about the West Tisbury School kitchen renovations on the Huffington Post
Let us know who you voted for at the 26th Annual Big Chili Contest
Watch the extensive work being done to restore and update one of the Island's oldest buildings
Today, Clifford the Big Red Dog visits up-Island, the Chickee Babies perform at the CCC and there is a screening of Melancholia
This weekend there's an opera, a Big Chili Festival, a foam roller workshop, a North Shore walk and so much more
Singer for summer wedding favorite, Sultans of Swing, heads to Hollywood for next level of competition
Three Headliners, sure to split your sides, take the stage at the Harbor View’s first Comedy Night
Today we’ve got Salsa for Elders, Farmers in Training and a Spaghetti Dinner for Edgartown 8th graders
A look at the properties that sold this past week on Martha's Vineyard
Today: Cynthia Riggs presents Victoria Trumbull’s Martha’s Vineyard, Grow the Local Food Movement meets in Chilmark and there is Ceramics for Toddlers at Featherstone
Vineyard Power Cooperative hopes to begin construction on canopies in March
Family and friends are invited to share their memories.
Autopsy to be performed, but no initial signs of trauma found.
