What makes a good kitchen? Is it efficiency? The right tools? Size? A beautiful space? A great view? There are probably as many versions of “good kitchen” as there are good Island cooks. Here are four of them and the places where they work their magic.
By Catherine Walthers
If I ever get chickens again, I’ll definitely rent them.
By Margaret Knight
“Attention, ladies and gentlemen: if there’s anyone who knows how to dock the ferry, please report to the bridge.”
By Geoff Currier
Holly Alaimo was watching television one night when passersby wandered in to look at her artwork on the wall. With that act of trespassing, an arts colony was born on Dukes County Avenue.
By Christine Schultz
In our early years on the Vineyard, my wife, Detta, loved the solitude of Quansoo.
By Joe Tate
It was a perfect day for fishing...
By Ivan Gural
If you are going to get nabbed for speeding in Chilmark, you could do worse than be stopped on the rise just west of the Allen Farm on South Road.
By Max Hart
Martha’s Vineyard has long attracted writers, and in recent years, a whole new school of them has been lured here.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
The Ark is built on one of the lowest spots in the Camp Ground of Oak Bluffs. When it rains, the whole backyard floods and with all that water around it, the house resembles the stern of Noah’s Ark, says owner Marina Firestone.
By Mary-Jean Miner