The people responsible for garnering and escalating bids at charity auctions can significantly impact the bottom line of Vineyard nonprofits, some of which are now hiring professionals.
Kate Feiffer
We once had a more personal relationship with our food. It came from our gardens or from a farm on the other side of town or a butcher shop or bakery whose owners we’d known for years.
One of the great things about farmer’s markets today is that they connect us again with the sources of our food.
Geoff Currier
July is jam-packed with fun events and activities. Here are a few you won’t want to miss.
Simone McCarthy
Painter Rez Williams of West Tisbury has been creating a distinctive and deeply personal chronicle of New Bedford’s iconic fishing boats for nearly fifteen years, and his enthusiasm for them shows no signs of diminishing.
Jim Miller
Ashley Chase is merging the resources and styles of two islands – Martha’s Vineyard and Bali – to create her new bathing suit line.
Simone McCarthy
Need a little inspiration for some early season fun? Here are five ideas for the months of May and June.
Simone McCarthy
There comes a time at the end of a long Vineyard summer when the weather loses its sparkle, friends and cousins have all gone home, and kids grow restless. Parents have grown weary of making sandwiches, searching for dry towels, and making another trek to the beach in the fog. The children have been to the Flying Horses in Oak Bluffs and Gus Ben David’s World of Reptiles in Edgartown. They’ve read all the library books about Geronimo Stilton and Captain Underpants.
Betsy Campbell
Steve and his brothers’ childhood adventures included jumping into the Atlantic from the concrete bunker, a relic from World War II, that still stood defiantly in the surf at South Beach a generation later.
“The Bunker Is Leaving”
When I was a boy
I swam at South Beach
We played in the waves
My brothers and me
We laid on our stomachs
