At Home with the Duck Inn
Some Aquinnah firsts: the first bed and breakfast in town, in a house with one of the first flush toilets, and containing the first enterprise consumed with canards.
A Summer Wind
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.
How it Works: How to Paint a Landscape
There’s no easy answer to the question, how do you paint a landscape?
Five Artist’ Favorite Views
Photographer Janet Woodcock claims to love almost every view of Martha’s Vineyard.
In Defense of Vineyard Golf
You Vineyard golfers are scum. You dress like pimps. You wake up course-side homeowners with your loud chatter in the dewy morning. You suck the water out of the aquifer, pollute the ground with fertilizer, reduce great tracts of land to suburbia. Well, we’re getting the last laugh. We’ll veto three of every four courses…
Richard Paradise of the Silver Screen Film Society
The Silver Screen Film Society, a one-man operation, has introduced Martha’s Vineyard to a refreshing variety of classic and contemporary films.
Works of Garden Art
The intersection of art and gardens is time-honored, and it continues today, here on Martha’s Vineyard.
The Rock Beneath the Beach
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.
The Good Fight at 40
Brendan O’Neill is a rather reluctant media star.
The Charity of Mrs. X
Four heads hang low over the starboard railing. No, these kids aren’t seasick.
The Vose Boathouse
One Vose family member describes it as “the center of our universe,” and goes on to say that “we continually ask ourselves, ‘How did we get so lucky? Why us?’ ”
An Airfield by the Sea
The Katama airport, 128 acres by the shore, might have been a developer’s dream come true. But Steve Gentle liked it just the way it was.
In the Light Where Sea Meets Land
On Martha’s Vineyard, the quality of light can be creamy, hazy, or startlingly clear. To the painters, photographers, sailors, and scientists who deal in it daily, it’s a gift.
So, You Want to Give Up that Day Job?
Up-and-coming painters clean biohazard rooms and drive trucks to pay the rent. But sometimes the day job itself inspires good art.
How I Got Here: Shirley W. Mayhew
In 1946 I had never heard of Martha’s Vineyard.
Bodhi Path
A View: From Street to Shining Sea
How would you feel if someone asked you to sign a legal document that invites people to gaze into your yard, and signs away rights to part of your waterfront view forever?
