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Last Saturday morning, summer-school students gathered at 7:45 a.m. for the Martha's Vineyard trip. They were soon told that the trip had been cancelled due to the number of students that did not have their measles immunizations...
From the comfort of his Martha's Vineyard retreat this past Memorial Day's weekend, Lewis said he plans to keep writing...
...most comfortable expressing himself through his music, but in a recent in-depth interview with TIME, he reflected on how those ordeals became rites of passage. "I feel like I'm a man now," he said, gazing toward a misty saltwater pond outside his home on Martha's Vineyard. "I used to think you were a man when you were 30. In my case it was not true. But you come to a time in life when you have to step forward. It's too late for me to be a boy anymore...
...market forces of the record business have changed dramatically since Taylor began his career. His breakthrough album, Sweet Baby James, was made for a mere $8,000 in 1970. Hourglass, which was recorded in a rented house on the Vineyard, cost $400,000. One thing that has not changed is the often bumpy transition as an artist moves from oblivion to stardom. It can be a scary ride, and it almost killed Taylor. "I was just swept away," he recalls about his bouts with heroin and alcohol. He has been clean and sober for 13 years, and is convinced that...
...grape farmers in Bill Barich's first novel, Carson Valley (Pantheon; 337 pages; $25), would not have to work as hard as they do. Slaking the thirst of the growing number of wine drinkers takes time and muscle. So where does Arthur Atwater, manager of Victor Torelli's vineyard, find the energy to have a grand cru romance with Anna, the boss's daughter? From the same source of instinctive vitality that drives every other plant and creature in California's wantonly fertile Sonoma County...