Artistry, whimsy, and ingenuity bring an Oak Bluffs home back to life.
By Shelley Christiansen
Each daylily blossom lasts only a day. But though it’s beauty is fleeting, it is useful year-round. Every part of it, except for its roots, can be eaten.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
"Look for a wolf tree and build it so it’ll move with the wind.”
By Ali Berlow
When the Oak Bluffs fireworks end with the bursting of a pair of glittering, pyrotechnic palm trees this month, the Martha’s Vineyard Swing Band will begin to play on the porch of 93 Ocean Avenue. And John and Sharon Kelly will celebrate 29 years of summer living on the perimeter of Ocean Park.
By Brooks Robards
When you walk out to our backyard, the first thing you’ll notice is that CDs are hanging from the branches of many of our bushes. It’s not because we want our forsythias to look like gypsies; it’s to scare away the damn deer.
By Geoff Currier
The Franklins, who run Vineyard Photo, keep a project in motion at home.
By Margaret Knight
My strategy is to plant a little more than I need of everything, do my imperfect best at pest control, then resign myself to sharing some of my bounty with the critters and insects.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
When a house acquires a name on the Island, it’s a sign that a stranger has arrived, worked hard, sacrificed, and achieved something memorable.
By Ali Berlow
Daffodils are the year-round Vineyarder’s special pleasure, along with pinkletinks and parking spots in Edgartown.
By Paul Schneider
Deep in the woods of Chilmark off Tabor House Road, the earthly and the ethereal meet in the timber-frame home of the Goff-Maidoff family.
By Margaret Knight
A renowned expert on indigenous flora on Martha’s Vineyard, Carlos Montoya has been interested in native plants since he began landscaping here some twenty years ago.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
