Fifty years ago, when Universal Studios came to Martha’s Vineyard to shoot the seminal movie Jaws, neither side knew what they were getting into – or what they would get out of it.
By Louisa Hufstader
Mixed-media collage artist Bricque Garber’s latest work might be influenced by somber current events, but she’s still finding plenty of joy in creating – and lifting up others in the process.
By Martha Kirkpatrick
This issue is a big one for us. It not only features the Best of the Vineyard results, our largest undertaking of the year; it also marks Alley Moore’s last as art director, a position he has held since 2003.
Actor, athlete, musician, coach, writer, filmmaker, stuntman...is there anything that Theodus Crane can’t do?
By Sydney Bender
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 Vineyard’s best-known artists. While his legacy endured, his name did not. A new exhibit aims to right that wrong.
By Thomas Humphrey
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.
By Brooke Kushwaha
Farming has never been easy on Martha’s Vineyard. But for the past fifty years the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market has been making it just a bit easier and a lot more fun.
By Thomas Humphrey
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.
By Vanessa Czarnecki
Sometimes all you need is a few hundred square feet and the love of a place.
By Valerie Reese
What to do, where to go, what to see, what to read, and more.