What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever seen out your window?
By Kate Feiffer
Just yesterday I was thinking, Gee, it’s January: January, February, March, April, May, the Vineyard.
By Mike Wallace
There’s no better way to turn your boat into a Chia Pet than to use the wrong antifouling bottom paint.
By Geoff Currier
Once you told me long ago, To the prom with me you’d go; Now you’ve changed your mind it seems Someone else will hold my dreams....
By Brooks Robards
The Frank E. Gannett was the first true ferry ever to serve Martha’s Vineyard.
“‘The shore is my source,’ says Rose Treat. ‘If an artist runs out of green, he runs to the store to buy green paint. If I run out of something I have to go to the beach.’”
By Christine Schultz
One of the few things my father and I held in common was the place where our passions intersected – the water.
By Geoff Currier
It’s summer and Thomas Bena of Chilmark is thinking about two things: movies and money. He thinks about movies all the time since he started the Martha’s Vineyard Independent Film Festival. As for the money, he thinks about where he might find a quantity of it to fund the festival next year, its fifth. He’s not going the easy, usual, high-season fund-raising route.
By Niki Patton
It's a remarkable house sitting in just the right place looking out over the perfect view. And it seems like it's always been there, but it hasn't. Sixty-five years ago it stood on Stonewall Beach at Squibnocket, maybe a hundred feet from lapping waves. That's almost unthinkable now, with what we know about storms, hurricanes and erosion. It's illegal, as a matter of fact.
By Niki Patton
Wolfie Blair had one of those ah-ha moments: What if kids could actually access the solid basics of saltwater fishing and some tricks of the cast from the get-go?
By Mary Breslauer
What could be more beautiful, more thrilling to watch than a horse, mane and tail flying, as it races along a Vineyard beach? Add a surfer, towed by the horse, and you get the new sport of, well, horse surfing. This spectacular event takes place in early fall on the edge of Sengekontacket Pond.
By Brooks Robards
“I was influenced by the colors of the ’80s, TV commercials, movies, the colors around me. I’ll look at a painting and think, ‘Oh wow, that was my mother’s comforter.’”
By CK Wolfson
