If You Had $700,000…
Sometimes buying the least-expensive house on the Island at the time can get you a dream home.
Renaissance Man
Actor, athlete, musician, coach, writer, filmmaker, stuntman…is there anything that Theodus Crane can’t do?
The Short and Long of It
In his brief life, Percy Cowen rose to the top of the Chilmark art scene, rubbed elbows with Thomas Hart Benton, and inspired one of the Vineyard’s best-known artists. While his legacy endured, his name did not. A new exhibit aims to right that wrong.
Space Invaders
Not to be confused with weeds, invasive plant species are an often-underestimated threat to the Island ecosystem. Spreading them is easy. Removing them is harder. Now is the season to be on guard.
Still Growing Strong
Farming has never been easy on Martha’s Vineyard. But for the past fifty years the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market has been making it just a bit easier and a lot more fun.
Long Road Home
The Island’s first “affordable” housing was built nearly fifty years ago, but we seem further away than ever from a solution to the problem. Where do we go from here?
flotsam and jetsam
Step by Step
What to do, where to go, what to see, what to read, and more.
One Last Thing
Oceanography
Let Us Now Praise Famous Menhaden
The apparent return of the lowly and hardworking menhaden – a.k.a. bunker, pogie, fatback, mossbunker – may well be the best thing that’s happened recently in local waters. Just ask a whale.
From the Editor
From the Editor
Things have started to go batty up in the West Tisbury woods where I live, and I’m not just referring to the northern long-ear denizens that have returned to jitter and jive across my yard. The deer have gone crazy. The birds have gone mad. The pinkletinks have gone positively berserk. They sound their cacophonous…
