In the summer, volunteers on the Vineyard visit beaches under the light of the moon to count horseshoe crabs as they come ashore to spawn.
By Sara Brown
Dress the beans while they’re still slightly warm and serve this salad at room temperature (not cold) for the best flavor. Great for a potluck, this also makes a nice supper with grilled tuna or swordfish.
By Susie Middleton
On the morning of Wednesday, July 1, 1891 a large flag with a white background, blue border, and the words “Harbor View” in crimson letters was run up the flagpole of a new enterprise at the very edge of Edgartown.
By Nis Kildegaard
We brake for green beans. Locally grown green beans are always selling out at the farm stand.
By Susie Middleton
Chef Nathan Gould of Water Street Restaurant at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown says his fluke crudo is a very refreshing appetizer for a Vineyard summer evening. “Enjoy with a vinho verde or any easy-drinking citrus-forward wine,” he adds.
By Nathan Gould
Chef and fish purveyor Mike Holtham cooks his fluke this way at home, and says all that’s needed as an accompaniment is a tomato or leafy green garden salad.
By Mike Holtham
Prudy Burt swung her Toyota Tacoma off of North Road and onto the shoulder. She traipsed confidently through the brush, pushing branches out of her way as she headed for Mill Brook. A Burt-led tour of the brook is both history lesson and gossip column, environmental report and storytelling session. She names each pond and knows the property owner responsible for every dam (and whether their children like to fish).
By Heidi Sistare
The magical realism of Cindy Kane.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
Food and Drink Best Coffee: Mocha Mott’s 10 Circuit Avenue, Oak Bluffs, 508-696-1922
Ted Williams, “the greatest hitter who ever lived,” was also a star in the sport fishing world and a member of the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame. Although he never fished on the Island, members of the derby committee and the Chamber of Commerce traveled to Fenway Park and presented him with a striper caught in one of the first derbies.
By Kib Bramhall
Ahh, those summer gull friends.
By Wes Craven
Phillip R. Allston, of Boston and Martha’s Vineyard, snapped this picture of his friends at Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs.
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