A writer splits for the other coast the day after Hurricane Bob in August 1991, abandoning his wife to clean up after the storm. In gratitude, she sends him a T-shirt whose slogan we wouldn’t dare print in this headline.
Geoff Currier
If you could dig deep into the sand along Seaview Avenue in Oak Bluffs, just across the street from where the old Sea View Hotel once stood, you would see it there, resting by the sea as it has for centuries.
Max Hart
Forbidden by law to go on strike, the captains, the mates, the engineers, and the deckhands of the Steamship Authority did just that forty-five years ago this spring.
Laura D. Roosevelt
They are the only mistakes I’m glad I made in journalism. Because of them I met the daughter of a whaling master, which, to me, is as remarkable in the latter half of 2004 as meeting the daughter of a Civil War veteran.
Tom Dunlop
In 1822 Fresnel invented the most important breakthrough in lighthouse lights in two thousand years.
Geoff Currier
In March 1932, the last heath hen in the world was seen for the last time on Martha’s Vineyard.
Tom Dunlop
And now for a short history of the yacht club located at the foot of Frog Alley.
It wasn’t until Thomas Hart Benton came to the Island in 1920 that he found himself, and the painting style for which he would become famous.
Sam Low
