Here’s to the (Parents of the) Bride and Groom
Just how big and how important is the wedding business anyway?
The Great Sheep Rustler
Exactly how bad was Major General Charles Grey?
DAW: Night Out, Morning In
Fine restaurants, through endless toil…
Flotsam & Jetsam: Recent News You Can Sort of Use
Oink Free or Die; Sit Free or Die; Heavy Frog Warning; But Could that Frog Eat a Jurassic Chicken?; Brokebird, We Hardly Knew Ye; Duly Noted.
Summers with Somerset
With the Nazis occupying his beloved France, there was only one place for the most famous writer in the world to go.
Get Me to the Court on Time
Mary Breslauer of Chilmark had one small, vital job to do in the cause of liberty. And she chose to call Uber…
Welcome to the Isle of Denial
Are some Vineyard parents putting the Island at risk of an outbreak?
The Charmed Life
With their silver anniversary far behind them, Margery Meltzer and Cheryl Stark are going for the golden.
The Blair Fish Project
Wolfie Blair had one of those ah-ha moments: What if kids could actually access the solid basics of saltwater fishing and some tricks of the cast from the get-go?
Giddy-Up, Dude!
What could be more beautiful, more thrilling to watch than a horse, mane and tail flying, as it races along a Vineyard beach? Add a surfer, towed by the horse, and you get the new sport of, well, horse surfing. This spectacular event takes place in early fall on the edge of Sengekontacket Pond. The…
Behind the Washashades
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, the saying goes.
Notes from the Tackle Room: That Feeling in The Gut
For pure pulse-racing, adrenaline-surging angling mayhem, the narrow channel known as The Gut has no equal when false albacore or “Little Tunny” invade in late summer and early autumn.
photo contest
Eighth Annual Photo Contest
This year’s photographers ranged from Island born and raised to summer residents and first-time visitors. Subject matter ranged from the familiar to the foreboding.
The Look
The Look, 1945
The year was approximately 1945 when Leona Coleman Flu went out fishing on her uncle Warren Riche Coleman’s catboat, also coincidentally named Leona.
From the Editor
From the Editor
Breaking news: another summer has come and gone. But I’ll not bore you with the tried and true recitations of how the ocean is still warm, warmer than July in fact, at Great Rock and Norton Point, State Beach and under the cliffs at Gay Head.
One Last Thing
Encyclopedia Vineyardia
Encyclopedia Vineyardia: N
Nab’s Corner; Nola; Lillian Nordica.
Piece of Work
Piece of Work: Colin Ruel
“I was influenced by the colors of the ’80s, TV commercials, movies, the colors around me. I’ll look at a painting and think, ‘Oh wow, that was my mother’s comforter.’”
Oceanography
Oceanography: Sounds Like: Walrus
The hidden world of underwater sound is now available to anyone with an Internet connection, thanks to the Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database presented by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
