New Hope for the Horseless
The Misty Meadows Farm of today doesn’t look like what you might imagine when you hear the term “community horse center.”
DAW: Summer Sound
At my window, bugs are flapping.Will they ever stop their tapping,Tapping till their heads are sore?Quoth the Junebug: “Nevermore!”
Return of a Native
The long and winding voyage of the Concordia yawl Dolce.
Arnie Reisman’s Big Makeover
Arnie Reisman didn’t set out to be one of the country’s leading experts on the history of face powder, let alone create something that would, years later, be the inspiration for a headline-grabbing musical show.
From the Editor
I was recently crossing the street in a certain down-Island town at one of thosecrosswalks that is marked with a little plastic sandwich board that reads something like “STATE LAW, yield for pedestrians.” You already know what is coming: a car paid zero attention to me or the other pedestrian and rolled right on through.…
The End of the Run
Each spring Buddy Vanderhoop bites the head off the first herring he catches. “It’s just traditional and it’s been done forever and it brings you luck,” he said late this winter, a few weeks before the earliest alewives and blueback herring – the scouts – began to fight their way up his herring run. “It’s…
In the Cornerless Office: Jaime Boyle
Favorite part of the job? “The different kinds of people you can meet through the season. A lot of my customers have been with me twenty years now.”
Notes from the Tackle Room: The Great Ponds
It was late in the evening on June 4, 1955 and Kib Bramhall needed a Vineyard fix.
Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Bird
The fantastical, mechanical, musical world of Tim Laursen.
Flotsam & Jetsam: Recent News You Can Sort of Use
Smokey and the Bandit II; Pinkletink Like a Man; The Smell of Money; What Do You Mean What Do We Do All Winter?; The Chosen One; Meanwhile, Over on the Happy Isle of Chappy.
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah…
Here I am at…Wesley House?
Hoochie Coochie Men (and Dog)
Live music and bars often go hand in hand on the Vineyard. But what to do in the morning light, when the haze remains and the tunes have faded? Or when the real world calls you to leave those blurry summer nights behind and you’re craving one more song? One Island-grown barfly band recently set…
Encyclopedia Vineyardia
Encyclopedia Vineyardia: D
Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer; Devil’s Den; and Dunlop, G. Thomas IV.
Karasik Cartoon
The Unpaved Island
Beasts of the Vineyard Wild
Forget about the waves and the sand, the bluefish and the beach umbrellas. There is another Vineyard, an inner network that is largely hidden, usually shady, and rarely paved.
The Voyage of the Weagle
Meet the man who saved the biking world’s keister.
Roll, Baby, Roll
The reigning queen (and her husband the king) of the off-road live in Chilmark.
So You Wanna Ride like a Pro?
Ask David Weagle, Mike Broderick, or Mary McConneloug where to mountain bike on the Vineyard and they will just shrug their shoulders and say everywhere.
The State of the Trails
If you can’t stand the traffic, get off the pavement. Because your backyard is way bigger than you think.
Oceanography
Oceanography: The Beetles are Getting Back Together!
An ecological success story has been taking place largely out of sight – underfoot and under the sand on the south shore, where the northeastern beach tiger beetle has been making a comeback.
Piece of Work
Piece of Work: Ruth Kirchmeier
At eighty, printmaker Ruth Kirchmeier emits sparks of energy as she talks about coming to the Island in 1988. It was, she says, “the beginning of a new life,” where she found her artistic calling – her intricate and distinctive woodcuts. It is a painstakingly slow and exacting process that she describes joyfully. “You have…
The Look
The Look, 1890
Even for the late nineteenth century, William and Rebecca Manter’s style was lagging behind the times.
