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By Paul Karasik

10.01.15

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?

10.01.15

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.

10.01.15

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.

By Sara Brown

10.01.15

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.

By Kib Bramhall

09.01.15

In honor of the seventieth Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, we sent fishing legend Janet Messineo out trolling for fish tales. Then, in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Jaws, we chummed the waters ourselves for a couple of good shark stories. The result? Well, you should have been here that time when, holy crap...you wouldn’t have believed it....

09.01.15

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

09.01.15

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

09.01.15

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

09.01.15

“Native Americans have always gamed, and we gamed for high stakes. Sometimes whole villages changed hands because of gambling.”

09.01.15

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.

09.01.15

For jewelry designer and sculptor Gogo Ferguson, inspiration is only a few sandy footsteps away.

By Alexandra Bullen Coutts

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