Martha’s Vineyard Magazine’s annual Best of the Vineyard winners were announced Thursday night during a packed event at the Loft in Oak Bluffs. More than 5,500 votes were cast in this year’s contest, in which the readers declare the best that the Island has to offer in 85 categories, from beaches to bars.
By Nicole Grace Mercier
Where you are going, deep into the woods, all you need is a loincloth. Or, if feeling modest, a pair of shorts and a T-shirt will do.
By Bill Eville
At eighty, printmaker Ruth Kirchmeier emits sparks of energy as she talks about coming to the Island in 1988. It was, she says, “the beginning of a new life,” where she found her artistic calling – her intricate and distinctive woodcuts.
By C.K. Wolfson
Smokey and the Bandit II; Pinkletink Like a Man; The Smell of Money; What Do You Mean What Do We Do All Winter?; The Chosen One; Meanwhile, Over on the Happy Isle of Chappy.
Even for the late nineteenth century, William and Rebecca Manter’s style was lagging behind the times.
Live music and bars often go hand in hand on the Vineyard. But what to do in the morning light, when the haze remains and the tunes have faded? Or when the real world calls you to leave those blurry summer nights behind and you’re craving one more song?
By Heather Hamacek
At my window, bugs are flapping.Will they ever stop their tapping,Tapping till their heads are sore?Quoth the Junebug: “Nevermore!”
By D.A.W.
Arnie Reisman didn’t set out to be one of the country’s leading experts on the history of face powder, let alone create something that would, years later, be the inspiration for a headline-grabbing musical show.
By Mary Breslauer
The long and winding voyage of the Concordia yawl Dolce.
By Matthew Stackpole
