I thought I’d try to shed some light on the increasing tensions between hawks and doves by organizing a simple colloquy. A hawk on one side, a dove on the other, all within a safe environment.
By Wes Craven
Ed Jerome, current Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby president and former Edgartown school principal, sports a turtleneck–polo shirt combo and a mustache that’s unmistakably eighties at the derby headquarters.
No wet-weather wardrobe would be complete without a version of the classic yellow (or orange) rain slicker.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
Some say his magnificent new work, American Romantic, is his best book yet. But you can bet the writer's eighteenth novel won't be his last. Not even close.
By Bill Eville
Just when you thought we would never have good excuse to re-run our favorite picture of legendary Vineyard summer regular John Belushi, we found one.
Charlie Blair was five years old, living in a summer house on Katama Bay in Edgartown, when Hurricane Carol slashed the Vineyard on August 31, 1954, sixty years ago this summer.
By Tom Dunlop
An Island couple defies the prevailing wisdom that you should never, ever, ever play tennis with your spouse.
By Karla Araujo
Ten years after the decision she wrote changed America forever, Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall reflects on democracy, marriage, and her intimate relationship with the Vineyard.
By Mary Breslauer
In 1953 I found a wooden Atom in the mouth of a dead shark on South Beach. It was the first plug that I owned, and a couple of weeks later I caught a striper on it. That began my decades-long love affair with striped bass plugs, which continues to this day.
By Kib Bramhall
Like many Vineyard regulars, writer Elizabeth Gates is wondering how we got here and where we're going.
By Elizabeth Gates
Captain: Fred Murphy Home Port: Vineyard Haven harbor The Name: Ishmael The Boat: Forty-eight-foot knockabout (i.e., no bowsprit) schooner
By Ivy Ashe
