Notes from the Tackle Room: War and Wasque
Seventy years ago this August, V-J Day set up a string of events that led me to the Vineyard and altered my life forever. When victory was announced, my mother made plans to visit her parents, who were vacationing at the Harborside Inn in Edgartown, and we set out the next day, taking the Cape…
Thing of Beauty: Go Big or Go Home
You trekked down to the beach, hauled your gear, and staked out the perfect spot. Why not save it in style?
30 Years From the MVM Vault: No, I’m Eisenstaedt
“It was a beautiful August afternoon, and I was working on taking a photograph of the Gay Head Cliffs with just the right light…”
Thanks from a Grateful Island
Lickety-split renovations are a specialty of sorts for Mark Snider.
DAW: Fair Gluttony
Hot tempura! Ice cream cones!Smoked ribs that melt right off the bones!Your stomach’s not an endless crater …No wonder you falafel later!
Uniting the Divided
Sometimes the arc of the moral universe is long and slow, and sometimes it curves sharply, making up for wasted time. That was the case last month as scattered calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina capitol ignited a nationwide call to expel Confederate symbols from all parks and government buildings.…
You Think I’m Crazy? Meet My Daughter.
You start out diving for coins on Martha’s Vineyard and the next thing you know you are a Hollywood stunt dynasty.
Sribblers’ Rodeo
Check Out That Librarian! Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness, by Jennifer Tseng. (Europa Editions) In her debut novel, award-winning poet and West Tisbury librarian Jennifer Tseng tells the story of a forty-one-year-old librarian on an island off the coast of New England. As the jacket copy puts it, her “most erotic pleasure is in…
The Sure Hand of Andrew Moore
There was a friend of mine, early on, who said, ‘Paint what you love.’” Andrew Moore leaned against a corner table in his Harthaven gallery, surrounded by his own work on one of the first warm days of the season. Behind him hung a nearly life-sized oil portrait of his daughter, Hannah, a parasol perched…
Island Classic: The Bikini
What is a “bikini” anyway?
Encyclopedia Vineyardia
Encyclopedia Vineyardia: K
Kelley House, Craig Johnstone Kingsbury, and King’s Land of Tisbury.
The Look
The Look, 1972
Easy like Sunday morning.
Oceanography
Oceanography: You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Permit
Forty years ago Jaws put the Vineyard (masquerading as an island called Amity) and white sharks on the same Hollywood map. The celluloid great white shark that terrorized beachgoers gave sharks a bad rap, and swimmers reason for pause, for years. But interest in real sharks, especially the whites – the official name for the…
Karasik Cartoon
From the Editor
From the Editor
You wouldn’t know it from a trip through Five Corners in Vineyard Haven, or the Triangle in Edgartown, but most Americans don’t take the time off they deserve. It’s not just hard-working laborers who are not permitted paid vacations by their Scroogian overlords, either, though that’s a huge problem and injustice: one in four Americans…
