After twenty years of focusing on her Vineyard Haven gallery, Nancy Shaw Cramer is ready to take a step back.

Nicole Grace Mercier

In the age of “reality” shows like Antiques Roadshow and Pawn Stars, when appraisers are minor celebrities and every grandmother’s attic seems to contain at least one semi-precious vase or imposter impressionist, it often appears as if determining the worth of a thing – any thing – takes little more than a quick once-over by the right person. But what we don’t see on television, says Nancy Whipple of Edgartown, is that behind every show host making grand pronouncements about a piece’s value (or lack thereof) is a bank of computers.

Alexandra Bullen Coutts

It started at Thanksgiving. Peggy Ehrenkranz, then eighty-three-years-old, and her twin children, Katherine and Doug, gathered with their families from various parts of the country to celebrate the holiday at Katherine’s home in McLean, Virginia. They all would have preferred to be coming together at their beloved Vineyard family camp at Makonikey, a two-structure rustic compound on one and a half acres with sweeping views of Vineyard Sound and the Elizabeth Islands that has been in the family for sixty-four years. But itwas simply too small.

Alexandra Bullen Coutts

With the Gay Head Light at the edge of the cliff, Vineyarders are celebrating, and angling to save, the beloved red-and-white-flashing beacon at the Island’s western tip.

You might want to think twice about where you put that coffee table.

Geoff Currier

James Sanfilippo of Aquinnah is an artisan specialty plasterer.

Simone McCarthy

As the driveway circles up toward the house, the wide curved porch - linking two of four wings - comes into view near the crest of the hill.

The owners: Ken and Dede Feinberg

Karla Araujo

A creative design trumps building lot limitations.

Shelley Christiansen

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