Martha’s Vineyard Museum
I was recently back in my hometown of Martha’s Vineyard and had a chance to visit the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Like any Vineyard kid, of...
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Lukas Kendall
Jun 111 min
Vineyard Events
A couple of upcoming events for my friends on Martha’s Vineyard: My friend Barry Rosenthal made a lovely hour-long documentary, The...
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Lukas Kendall
Jan 312 min
The Asplundh Truck
Yesterday in our neighborhood I saw a tree-trimming truck with a worker up in the “cherry picker.” This reminded me of the orange...
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Lukas Kendall
Jan 141 min
Remembering Peter Simon
Here’s one for my hometown peeps. With the new year came time to put the 2024 calendar on my office wall—the Vineyard Calendar, of...
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Lukas Kendall
Jan 11 min
Happy New Year 2024
Happy new year everybody! My new year is already going great because I found the above picture aboard the old Martha’s Vineyard and...
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Lukas Kendall
Aug 20, 20233 min
Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair
We are getting the remnants of a rare hurricane here in Southern California (you may have heard). So far it’s just like any winter...
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Lukas Kendall
Jun 30, 20237 min
Martha’s Vineyard Movie Theaters in the 1980s
Of this writing I am about to take our girls to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. But today’s column is not about that film. Or...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 28, 20231 min
Support PanCan
I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer in the name of my stepfather, Herb Putnam. The charity is PanCan and they are fantastic....
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 17, 20231 min
Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer
Hello Friends. I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer, which took my stepfather, HERB PUTNAM, in 2008. He was only 59. Herb was...
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Lukas Kendall
Feb 25, 20232 min
Power Outage
When I was a kid growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, we lived at the end of a long dirt road in the woods. So a few times a year, when there...
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Lukas Kendall
Feb 5, 20232 min
My Vineyard Film on Local Radio
Above: Mytoi Gardens in Chappaquiddick—a location I would love to use! I’ve been talking for some months about an indie comedy–drama I...
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Lukas Kendall
Jan 22, 20232 min
Vineyard Hockey Mini-Doc
Some readers might know—because I’ve talked about it enough—I want to make an indie film on Martha’s Vineyard. So I was interested to see...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 31, 20221 min
Goodbye 2022
Hard to believe 2022 is coming to a close. I was born in 1974, and our twin girls were born in 2014, so I’ve been mentally tracking their...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 17, 20223 min
World Cup
I am enjoying watching the World Cup, as I usually do. I look forward to the final match tomorrow. The passing is so sophisticated, and I...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 19, 20222 min
The Vineyard Goes Michael Mann
Growing up on Martha’s Vineyard felt very safe. We never used to lock the house—I don’t even remember seeing our house keys—and we’d...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 17, 20221 min
Martha’s Vineyard Migrants
My hometown was in the news this past week, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis evidently arranged to lure under false pretenses newly...
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Lukas Kendall
Aug 10, 20221 min
Farewell to David McCullough
The great author and historian David McCullough has died. He was a longtime West Tisbury resident, so when we read one of his books in...
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Lukas Kendall
Jul 8, 20221 min
Hot Tin Roof Murals
This is a picture of my stepdad, Herb Putnam, who we lost to pancreatic cancer in 2008. (He sort of looked like Sam Neill.) We miss him...
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Lukas Kendall
Jun 27, 20221 min
I’m Back!
We’re back in L.A. after two weeks visiting family on Martha’s Vineyard and Evanston, Illinois. For now I am busy uploading a huge...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 15, 20222 min
Catching Up With Amin Matalqa
Amin Matalqa is a director whose debut feature, Captain Abu Raed (2007), was the first film produced in Jordan in 50 years, and won the...
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