Growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, I’m a born host.
Linley Dolby
David Kinney’s book The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish delves into the nature of fishing on the Island as well as the annual, fall Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.
David Kinney
When you live on an island, it’s inevitable that you’ll find yourself in unlikely relationships. Sure, there are the regulars in your life – family, friends, the people you work with – but then there are the others, the unexpecteds.
Kate Feiffer
In my car aboard the freight deck of the Governor, headed over choppy waves to Woods Hole one fall morning, I couldn’t help but notice the large windshield sticker on the car in front of me: VINEYARDERS.
Barbara Leham Smith
Oh, we loved those baby trees. Scraggly little things: bare-root tulip trees. One hundred and fifty of them.
Nicole Galland
The first time I ever came to the Island of Martha’s Vineyard, I had never heard of it, and nobody I knew had ever heard of it. That was sixty-plus years ago, in 1946. Today, it is surprising to meet anyone in the world who has never heard of it.
Shirley Mayhew
Today I went to my mother’s house and completed the final tasks of closing up for the season: blankets folded into the chest with moth balls, lawn chairs and garbage cans stowed inside, and furniture covered with old sheets.
Margaret Knight
