VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — It was early in August when my husband and I had just arrived on Martha's Vineyard and ventured out by bicycle to try to get a feel for the island.
We hadn't gotten far when I got a text message: "Girl! We just passed you on your bike ... !"
I hardly ever bump into Leslie Tyler, a spokesperson for the Kimmel Center, when we're in Philadelphia, but I had managed to do so within a few hours of my arrival on the triangular-shaped island just south of Cape Cod. Later, she and her husband, the Rev. Mark Tyler, pastor of the historic Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, stopped by where my husband and I were staying to chat. We were Vineyard newbies and listened intently as he explained how random encounters like the one we had just experienced are part of the island's appeal.
