Sections

Fourteenth Annual Photography Contest

After reviewing more than 1,100 images, the judges have spoken. Here are their favorites.

The Good Fight

Decades after founding the innovative, environmentally focused South Mountain Company, John Abrams is handing over the reins. But he’s not done sharing his rose-colored vision for the future of the Vineyard...and the world.

All in the Family

For three generations and counting, the Pachecos of Oak Bluffs have been setting the table for their Island neighbors.

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Essays & Humor

From the Editor

Every once in a while someone shares a new story [about my father in law, Dan Sharkovitz], a new note of thanks, a new anecdote in a magazine, and I am grateful. It is a reminder that Dan’s legacy is still being written by his students.

By Vanessa Czarnecki

On The Water

No Pond is an Island

The Vineyard’s inner coastlines are on the brink.

By Loren Ghiglione

Gardens + Landscapes

They Belong Among the Wildflowers

Who says your landscape can’t be a nature preserve?

By Moira Convey Silva

People

Rachel Self Help

The Chappaquiddick-based attorney isn’t done assisting Venezuelan migrants transported to the Vineyard.

By Alexandra Bullen Coutts

Gardens + Landscapes, Been There?

Whither the Beech?

A plague of invisible nematodes is threatening one of the signature species of the Island’s forests.

By Thomas Humphrey

Eating In

A Sprout in Every Pan

However you slice them, whichever pan you prepare them in, Brussels sprouts can be delicious. Except when they’re boiled. Don’t ever do that.

By Susie Middleton

 

 

The now legendary demolition derbies, a.k.a. the Crunches, took place in Aquinnah around Columbus Day weekend of 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 with Vineyard Sound providing a gorgeous backdrop.

This video shows one of the final runs of 1982 when Jackie Clason - driving her Chevy Vega, called Joy to Destroy - was sideswiped, causing her car to flip over. Immediately, people ran to the rescue and righted the car.