Having paddled here, there, and everywhere, Carolyn Dowd comes home to lead kayak tours all around the Vineyard.
By Tom Dresser
My husband is having an affair of heart with Mabel, but I think I’m falling in love with her, too.
By Margaret Knight
A few Menemsha lobstermen hang on to a way of life as the catch in southern New England hits a 25-year low. Scientists, regulators, and fishermen are debating the reasons why.
By Christine Schultz
The high point of the Vineyard year is summer, and the high point of every summer is the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Fair.
By Nicole Galland
Each August, a very small fireworks company shoots a very big show over Oak Bluffs.
By Tom Dunlop and Tom Flynn
While docking in Edgartown to fill up on supplies, the venerable whaling captain James Longsail once noted, “You will no sooner find affordable lodging on Martha’s Vineyard than you will find a whale riding a bicycle.”
By Pete Cummin
(And Marty Nadler’s favorite snappy answers.)
Croquet – considered risqué in the nineteenth century and snooty in the twentieth – retakes the field on the Vineyard (and welcomes all comers) in the twenty-first.
By Jim Kaplan
On Chappy and across the Vineyard, we make do with what’s lying around. If it still works or runs – even barely – it’s good enough for us.
By Margaret Knight
Minding his own business.
By Mike Seccombe
Executive Director of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.
By Kate Feiffer
A 22-year-old native of Chappaquiddick, serving as second mate aboard the traditional schooner Pride of Baltimore II, sails across the Atlantic for the first time in her life.
By Lily Morris
