I Got an Icon Camera
The photographer Peter Simon takes a look back at his own long, strange trip.
Flotsam & Jetsam: Recent News You Can Sort of Use
I’ll Wait for the Nantucket, Thanks; Wait, Wait, They Didn’t Really Ask That; New Kids on the Cliffs; The Great White Pack Rat; On Fischer’s Island; and Duly Noted.
One Big Hubbub
Thomas Bena has a new film about big new homes, but doesn’t have a big new home for his Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. At least not yet.
DAW: Grand Illumination
An August evening fills with light…
Notes from the Tackle Room: Anthiers Bridge
Hiding in plain sight.
Holy Hibernaculum!
No one is certain why northern long-eared bats are surviving on the Vineyard when they are dying everywhere else. But the search is on.
Things That Go Blink in the Night
The things that only night swimmers and fisherfolk have seen.
The Night the Circus Came to the Vineyard
Long after dark on August 3, 1963, a vast menagerie rolled into Woods Hole, bound for Waban Park.
Wild Thing: Blue Crab
The Chesapeake may be crab country, but their same famed blue crabs – the ones New England restaurateur and cookbook author Jasper White has called “the gold standard for crab cocktail” – swim along our shores, too.
Life in the Highlands
Some call Oak Bluffs elite. The Colemans of Coleman Corners call it home.
good work well done
Good Work, Well Done: The Grand Bargain
Is the formerly whispered-about conflict between conservation and housing a thing of the past?
Encyclopedia Vineyardia
Encyclopedia Vineyardia: F
Ferry Boat Island; Fisher, Fred S. (Sr.); and Fresnel Lens.
Piece of Work
Piece of Work: Ashley Medowski
“Art reflects your own happiness and people can see in my pieces that I enjoyed making them. I think that’s one of the reasons they like them.”
The Look
The Look, Circa 1950
The dog show is a tried-and-true event at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society’s Livestock Show and Fair, but who knew that it was once also an opportunity to look so good?
Oceanography
Oceanography: Into Deep Water
Some have called the Andrea Doria the Mount Everest of shipwrecks. But in early June, a manned submersible successfully visited the wreak, bringing back new sonar images.
From the Editor
From the Editor
Can I just say right here and now that I am going to miss President Obama and his brand of low-key but relentless sanity.
