Categories newsmakers | 1940sPosted on 2013/11/13Russell Hoxsie ’48 Russell Hoxsie ’48, M.D., received the Creative Living Award from the Permanent Endowment Fund of Martha’s Vineyard. Hoxie and his wife, Maryann, have lived on the Massachusetts island for 51 years, where he worked as a family physician and is the resident expert on Lyme disease. He recently published a local bestseller, Let’s Walk, Lilly, about his favorite places to walk on the Vineyard with his springer spaniel. Additionally, with a co-author, he has published a book of poems. As an undergraduate at Wesleyan, he pursued pre-medical studies and received his medical degree from Cornell.