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
“Right above the table, the little mouse paused, leaned over as if to join the conversation, then tumbled over the edge and landed with a thud on the table.”
By Shirley Mayhew
The heyday of the Hot Tin Roof was in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the first few years of its existence. The club changed hands many times, went bankrupt once, and was resurrected in the mid-1990s. The steel building at the airport now houses a nightclub called Outerland – as well as a lot of memories.
By Chris Burrell
On its sesquicentennial, Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, one of the oldest businesses on the Island, stands at the heart of a working Vineyard Haven harbor.
By Tom Dunlop
When you walk out to our backyard, the first thing you’ll notice is that CDs are hanging from the branches of many of our bushes. It’s not because we want our forsythias to look like gypsies; it’s to scare away the damn deer.
By Geoff Currier
Baby birds in trouble. Endangered. Who wouldn’t want to save the piping plover at almost any cost? All you fishermen, senior citizens, and second graders who’ve lost the use of your favorite beach, line up here.
By Kate Feiffer
Two summers ago, I took a job in downtown Edgartown. “What about parking?” I inquired.
By Shelley Christiansen
The Franklins, who run Vineyard Photo, keep a project in motion at home.
By Margaret Knight
My strategy is to plant a little more than I need of everything, do my imperfect best at pest control, then resign myself to sharing some of my bounty with the critters and insects.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
Two little women from Chilmark tour the country with General Tom Thumb.
By Tom Dunlop
Art Railton has been researching Vineyard history for almost thirty years, writing and editing stories for The Intelligencer, the quarterly journal of the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society. Now he’s written a book, the first comprehensive history of the Island to be published in 95 years. Not bad for a guy who doesn’t really believe in the idea of history at all.
By Tom Dunlop
