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Accidental Islanders

A year after forty-nine Venezuelan migrants were transported to the Vineyard, one family who made the journey has come to call it home.

Saving Waskosim’s

Nearly forty years ago, a protracted battle between developers and a grassroots collection of neighbors proved to be a turning point in the history of conservation on the Island.

On the Edge

Shellfishermen and scientists have spent years battling a disease that nearly wiped out the native oyster population. At last, there are signs of a possible way forward.

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See Weeds?

Artist Corinna Kaufman of Aquinnah has spent a lifetime creating fine art from found seaweed.

By Moira Silva

In 1962 Lela Mae Williams boarded a bus for Massachusetts accompanied by her nine youngest children. She had been promised a better life – guaranteed housing, a job, even a personal welcome from then-President Kennedy. But when she arrived in Hyannis, she discovered she had been the victim of a cruel political joke.

By Vanessa Czarnecki

"“I strive to be unflappable,” Little League umpire-in-chief Rick Mello says, but he admits to times when “the chirping gets under my skin.” "