30 Years From the MVM Vault: The More Things Change…
“After the crush of a frantic and somewhat fractured summer season, the Island now moves to a quieter time of year, to the seasons of autumn and winter ahead when the rhythms of Vineyard life slow…”
DAW: A Word of Caution
Brochures for paint and vinyl flooring Sometimes prove a trifle boring To your friends who don’t quite share Your innate decorating flair.
Island Classic: Shingles
As ubiquitous as a white picket fence in Edgartown or a stonewall in Chilmark, the shingled house is synonymous with Vineyard architectural style.
The Nadler Effect: Home & Garden Lite
Yes, the phrase “Home & Garden” evokes visions of sprawling acres, elaborate man caves, and limited-edition artisanal wallpaper, but it has finally come time to shed light away from the Goliaths and onto the Davids of the Home & Garden game. See, not every Vineyard abode is designed for vegetation mazes on the outside and…
Clean up your act, already.
Is there an easier way to bridge the seasons than all this shuffling, searching, and shoving?
Wild Thing: Bay Scallops
Forget hunting or fishing – starting in October, gathering sweet bay scallops is where it’s at.
Thing of Beauty: Local Tray!
Just because it’s called a “formal” dining room doesn’t mean you can’t showcase pops of color to jazz it up. And stop using neutral tones for your kitchen’s color palette – it’s the heart of your home, after all. Make it lively! Those are just a few of the lessons longtime friends Linda Carnegie and…
Thirty Years in the Garden
After more than three decades designing and taking care of Vineyard gardens large and small, Peggy Schwier has learned that the best horticulture teacher of all is the garden itself.
A Certain Type
In the garden or the studio, Emma Young isn’t the sort to look for shortcuts.
From the Editor
It is a singular variety of good fortune to dwell in one place that you love for many years. To watch the mail-order twigs you and your best friend planted grow into mature creatures. For that is what plants are – creatures – when you live with them for ten or twenty years. Or more.…
Man Made
A good craftsman never blames his tools. Especially if he makes them himself.
The Pink House
An unusual mid-century home with an unusual mid-century story gets a facelift.
You Are What You Feed
There are dog people, and cat people, and horse people, and bird people. And then there are the people who never saw a pet they didn’t love. Or at least try to love.
Notes from the Tackle Room: Fall Faithful
When I arrived at the beach on November 3, 1979 this message was scratched into the dirt of the parking lot: LUCIANO WAS HERE, 22, 28, 36. That was Luciano Rebay’s way of telling us that he had beached three large stripers on his annual Election Day pilgrimage to the Vineyard from Columbia University, where…
What Do You Mean You Can’t Cook?
On a seemingly food-obsessed Island, is it any surprise that there are more winter cooking classes than you can shake a frozen fish stick at?
Coffee Table Clatch
Small is beautiful. The New Small House, by Katie Hutchison.(The Taunton Press) If utilizing space is your main priority, Katie Hutchison’s new book is a great reference. A former Vineyard resident, Hutchison features blueprints for homes ranging from 600 to 1,640 square feet, plus tips on design strategies that will have you surprised at how…
Encyclopedia Vineyardia
Encyclopedia Vineyardia: P
Pagoda Tree, Pétanque, Daniel Pierce, Place on the Wayside, John Poketapace, Samuel Freeman Pratt, and Priscilla Pearls.
Karasik Cartoon
Oceanography
Oceanography: Holy Blond Bivalves, Batman!
If all goes well, local biologists will soon be growing gold in local waters. Scientists with the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have been breeding golden mussels, a unique-hued version of the common mussel that they hope will boost the Island’s nascent farmed mussel industry. Wild mussels come in lots…
The Look
The Look, 1987
You reap what you sow, but not what you sew – which may explain what happened to Andrew Woodruff’s shirt in this classic portrait of classic farmer style at Whippoorwill Farm.
