Suzan Bellincampi grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey, but she’s become a well-known Vineyarder in recent years for her environmental work. Currently, as the director of the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown, Suzan helps adults and children alike connect with nature through educational programs, camps, and festivals.
By Elaine Pace
A trip aboard one of the Black Dog Tall Ships introduces fifth graders to a bit of history, communal living, and the waters surrounding the island they call home.
By Meredith Downing
I’m not much of a gardener. Don’t know the practical difference between a shovel and a spade.
By HJ Bernstein
Krishana Collins didn’t grow up within the longtime tradition of farming on the Island, but this young farmer has built a successful business with a couple of acres, a spot at the West Tisbury Farmer’s Market, orders from high-end restaurants – and a lot of hard work and support from Mother Nature.
By Catherine Walthers
The dork on the sailboat in Jaws 2 wants his own Jaws Fest.
By Tom Dunlop
The grass is greener in front of everyone else’s house.
By Kate Feiffer
Researcher Luanne Johnson began studying skunks to see if they were a threat to shorebirds, and ended up finding them a fascinating subject in their own right.
By Margaret Knight
A gap in his knowledge of pre-Mayflower America led Tony Horwitz, the bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who lives in Vineyard Haven, to write a new history and travel book A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World.
By Tony Horwitz
The hippie invasion on the Vineyard in the sixties and seventies not only affected the culture of that day, but continues to influence the Island.
By Richard C. Skidmore
Such is the power of an alpaca.
By Geoff Currier
Producers of honey. Pollinators of our food and flowers.
By Ali Berlow
