Everett Poole has a simple plan to fix the Island. But first you have to get him to slow down enough to tell you about it.
By Mollie Doyle
One evening not long ago I discovered that my phone can take time-lapse movies. Now, I’m sure everyone with the ubiquitous phone that we all apparently can’t live without has known about this feature for a long time. But I don’t take a lot of photographs, so it was new to me. I happened to be out watching the sun go down over the water at the time, so I propped the phone on a nearby stone and set it to record the final moments of a hot summer day and the arrival of night.
By Paul Schneider
“Native Americans have always gamed, and we gamed for high stakes. Sometimes whole villages changed hands because of gambling.”
Kate Fournier, the one-woman workforce behind Noepe Design, launched her company this past spring. Mere months later, her products are in high demand.
By Nicole Grace Mercier
What type of berry is safe to eat but not to plant? The answer isn’t so much a riddle as a home cook’s pro tip and a gardener’s cautionary tale. Autumn olives, small red berries with silver flecks, are abundant on the Island – too abundant, in fact. The native Asian shrubs and trees, introduced to the U.S. in the 1800s to line roadways and prevent erosion, today pose a significant threat to native foliage.
For jewelry designer and sculptor Gogo Ferguson, inspiration is only a few sandy footsteps away.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
Seventy years ago this August, V-J Day set up a string of events that led me to the Vineyard and altered my life forever. When victory was announced, my mother made plans to visit her parents, who were vacationing at the Harborside Inn in Edgartown, and we set out the next day, taking the Cape Codder train from Grand Central Station in New York to Woods Hole, where we would board the Vineyard ferry.
By Kib Bramhall
“It was a beautiful August afternoon, and I was working on taking a photograph of the Gay Head Cliffs with just the right light..."
Meet the brains and brawn behind the new Rosewater Market in Edgartown.
By Erin Ryerson
Lickety-split renovations are a specialty of sorts for Mark Snider.
By Phyllis Meras
Lucy Mitchell’s love of books takes her new work beyond words.
By Nancy Tutko
