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May-June 2024


Renaissance Man

Actor, athlete, musician, coach, writer, filmmaker, stuntman…is there anything that Theodus Crane canโ€™t do?

The Short and Long of It

In his brief life, Percy Cowen rose to the top of the Chilmark art scene, rubbed elbows with Thomas Hart Benton, and inspired one of the Vineyardโ€™s best-known artists. While his legacy endured, his name did not. A new exhibit aims to right that wrong.

Space Invaders

Not to be confused with weeds, invasive plant species are an often-underestimated threat to the Island ecosystem. Spreading them is easy. Removing them is harder. Now is the season to be on guard.

Still Growing Strong

Farming has never been easy on Marthaโ€™s Vineyard. But for the past fifty years the West Tisbury Farmersโ€™ Market has been making it just a bit easier and a lot more fun.

Long Road Home

The Islandโ€™s first โ€œaffordableโ€ housing was built nearly fifty years ago, but we seem further away than ever from a solution to the problem. Where do we go from here?

flotsam and jetsam

Oceanography

Let Us Now Praise Famous Menhaden

The apparent return of the lowly and hardworking menhaden โ€“ a.k.a. bunker, pogie, fatback, mossbunker โ€“ may well be the best thing thatโ€™s happened recently in local waters. Just ask a whale.

From the Editor

From the Editor

Things have started to go batty up in the West Tisbury woods where I live, and I’m not just referring to the northern long-ear denizens that have returned to jitter and jive across my yard. The deer have gone crazy. The birds have gone mad. The pinkletinks have gone positively berserk. They sound their cacophonousโ€ฆ


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