James Dale
Second Acts: Morgen Schroeder
“If I can wax poetic about cheese for a second …”
After you study civil engineering in college, and pursue a career in construction in...
Second Acts: Lucian Nastasi
Lucian Nastasi considers himself lucky. Lucky that he was raised by a loving Romanian family who valued education. Lucky he learned to speak English...
Second Acts: Jovana Balaban
How does a young woman from a landlocked Eastern European country, educated to become a literature and language teacher, end up a serial entrepreneur...
Second Acts: NaDaizja Bolling
From as long as she can remember, NaDaizja Bolling spent her summers on Martha’s Vineyard. Raised near Boston, she went off to Syracuse University...
Second Acts: Irene Ziebarth and Doug West
Doug West began coming to Martha’s Vineyard in summers as a kid, back in 1952, and later his family bought a cottage in Oak...
Second Acts: Jocelyn Coleman Walton
“My grandmother, Luella Coleman, came to the Vineyard as a domestic and through perseverance and vision, she bought a house. And I spent every single summer...
A sobering conversation on opiates, addiction
“One kid died and the other was on his way to federal prison for five and a half years for having furnished him...
Second Acts: Jennifer DaSilva
For most people, taking a work break means not working. But for Jennifer DaSilva, it means coming up with her next line of work....
Second Acts: Heidi Feldman
Usually this column is about someone who, at some point in life, finds a new and different path — a second act. But today’s...
Second Acts: Debbie Hale
“From the first time I tried it, it spoke to me; it just spoke to my soul and made me look at everything differently.”...
Second Acts: Jason Mazar-Kelly
Downward dog. Form 1040. Chakra. Itemized deductions. Asana. Total taxable income. Mantra. Quarterly estimates. Namaste. Yoga and tax jargon — terms you don’t often...
Second Acts: Leigh Cormie
It seems Leigh Cormie was destined to end up on Martha’s Vineyard. He certainly didn’t plan it. If his itinerary from Czechoslovakia, where he’d...
Second Acts: Whitney Hanschka
In the mid-1980s, Whitney Hanschka graduated from Stanford University in mechanical engineering — the stuff of aerospace, biotech, and robotics — no doubt on...
Second Acts
This installment of Second Acts started out as a profile on Steve Ewing, dockbuilder-poet. If ever there was a Vineyarder finding his “other self,”...
Second Acts: Sometimes they come early
Often it takes years to find your second act. A lifetime of living or working in one direction, and finally discovering your inner calling...
Second Acts: Gerry Yukevich
Is there something that is inherently Martha’s Vineyard that fosters the freedom to pursue our other selves — our talents, drives, and passions? The...
Second Acts: Bob Avakian and Barbara Reynolds
Is it something in the air we breathe? Or the light that shines here? Is it literally being an island, floating freely away from...