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
For nine years, Rick Haslet of Chappaquiddick has been building a boat he’s dreamed of since 1978. There’s one little detail that might keep her from being launched this summer as planned: she’s got to be perfect.
By Sam Low
How Charlayne Hunter-Gault got here.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
How to stock an Island pond with mainland trout.
By Geoff Currier
Dominic Zachorne builds a model.
By Elaine Lembo
Defying uneven ground, bushes, sand, rocks, and divots, an up-Island game of softball thrives off Tabor House Road.
By Jim Kaplan
Costumes stored above the grocery store.
By Ali Berlow
Moderation is everything – especially when it’s your job to run town meeting, the purest form of democracy on earth.
By Margaret Knight
My assignment: Find out the answer by getting myself from Oak Bluffs to Aquinnah and back, using thumb power alone.
By Holly Nadler
Two views of Trinity Park, shot eighty-seven years apart.
By Tom Dunlop
Sometimes there can be a certain charm to being vaguely naive.
By Jib Ellis
How do you get the chance to interview a man whose father planted slices of bread in the ground in Greece and discovered a primitive form of penicillin?
By Tom Dresser
