BY APRIL KNIGHT        My fascination with Vincent van Gogh began when I first heard my older brother strumming Don McLean’s “Vincent.” A tribute to the Dutch post-impressionist, the song’s imagery was so concrete it played like a montage of colors in my head: thick strokes of blue across a blank canvas, yellow daffodils bending…

BY APRIL KNIGHT   There are some moments in life, no matter how long ago, that can still give you a good punch in the gut every time you think about them. The moment I voluntarily jumped off a perfectly good airplane always does it for me. Skydiving is no longer an uncommon experience; you’re bound to have…

BY APRIL KNIGHT All research done by the V.I. Sea Turtle Project under the University of the Virgin Islands Marine and Environmental Science Center is conducted pursuant to a National Marine Fisheries Service permit.           The seabed shimmered a dark green, barely reached by the filtered midday light. Darker coral lay in…