“I bought it last year – it wasn’t [called] Chocolate Chip. It was some ungodly name that you can’t even pronounce that meant nothing to me at all. I have a forty-four-footer, and the name of that boat is Hot Chocolate.”
By Ivy Ashe
The architecture magazineShows bathrooms gleaming and pristineWhose sinks, it seems, have never seenA toothbrush cup or Listerine
By D.A.W.
Photographer Peter Simon’s housemates pose in front of their semi-commune in Aquinnah, where they spent the summer outfitting the house with utilities.
Ever wonder why fly fishermen wear dishpans around their waists? These contraptions are called stripping baskets, and the Vineyard was a testing and proving ground for them. A stripping basket is a container into which fly line is retrieved or “stripped.” It gives the angler the ability to control the loose line so that it doesn’t tangle with rocks or seaweed or other detritus or get rolled up in breaking waves.
By Kib Bramhall
A studio visit with ceramic artist Jennifer McCurdy.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
Most of them have played together since grade school. Now in their last year of high school, the varsity boys' soccer team is poised to ... No, no, we don't want to jinx anything.
By Ivy Ashe
In 1966 Ward Just was seriously wounded while covering the war in Vietnam for the Washington Post. The following is the story he filed about the incident on July 17 of that year.
By Ward Just
Once upon a time it was standard wisdom that the hurricane of 1938 was the first and worst to hit the Island. But hidden in the bottom of coastal marshes, and in old logbooks and newspapers, is the true story of New England hurricanes.
By Tom Dunlop
Owner: Chris Morris, 20, Oak Bluffs Boat: Lucky Blue, nineteen-foot fiberglass Boston Whaler Montauk Home Port: The Morris backyard. It gets towed to landing sites when Chris goes out.
By Ivy Ashe
Three Parts Romance, two parts nostalgia with a dash of African American cultural history make A Martha’s Vineyard Love Story an enjoyable Island cocktail. This slim novel follows an unlikely pair whose enduring attraction might seem unbelievable to anyone who didn’t fall in love for the first time in August by the ocean.
It's stated (oftentimes to tease) That apples don't fall far from the trees, But pumpkins never leave the nest, Not even at their mom's request.
By D.A.W.
Lately food trucks are all the rage but they’re hardly a new idea. Cowboys driving cattle in the 1800s had what were probably the first food trucks – they called them chuck wagons. In the 1890s lunch wagons did a good business catering to late-night workers. And of course mobile food trucks have been around for years, serving up food at construction sites.
By Geoff Currier
