My friend Ed called recently to say he is looking for a house to rent on the Vineyard for a few weeks this summer. These calls from off-Island are one of the surest signs of spring, as reliable as the pinkletinks that crawl up out of their cold, muddy beds and into the trees to start their nightly peep-peep-peeping for love and happiness.
Paul Schneider
The moment I told my friend Ed that I was soon to take a job at the helm of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, he launched into one of his characteristic reveries, this time about the sentences Iwould write in my new position as what he called “a country editor.”
Paul Schneider
For the love of food and the fear of the bogeyman.
Margaret Knight
To harvest beach plums, jelly makersScour endless Island acres;When the picker is the eater,Beach plum jelly’s all the sweeter.
D.A.W.
Circumnavigating Martha’s Vineyard in a day.
Dana Gaines
Seven writers share elemental Martha’s Vineyard experiences.
Photographer Alison Shaw headed out at nine in the morning on December 20, 2009, and for the next eight hours she traveled the Island capturing both the whirls of activity and moments of peacefulness.
Growing up, I suppose I took for granted all the wild weather we routinely experienced, only vaguely aware of other people’s weather.
Molly Glasgow
