What advice would you give a house guest who wants to be invited back?
Kate Feiffer
We must have always timed our trips just right because the ferry On Time had never even entered our thoughts.
Carolyn O'Daly
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.
Max Hart
Martha’s Vineyard has long attracted writers, and in recent years, a whole new school of them has been lured here.
Laura D. Roosevelt
You know that if you have a home on Martha’s Vineyard, you occupy a special place in the hearts of your mainland friends – a place that coincides neatly with their weeklong summer vacations.
You’ll recall it was barely springtime when the phones started ringing. “We were wondering. . . .” “Hey, what are you doing. . . .” “We had a fantastic idea! Why don’t you plan to come and visit us in the fall, but this summer, we. . . .” You’ve heard it all before, right?
Mark Jenkins
Thomas Hart Benton brought this essay, both an obituary and a biography of a dog named Jake, to the office of the Vineyard Gazette in August 1946 and asked editor Henry Beetle Hough whether he cared to publish it.
Thomas Hart Benton
These are the sounds I hear on an early spring morning.
Kate Feiffer
I may have been smart enough to move to Martha’s Vineyard, but now that I live here, I can’t figure out how to leave.
Niki Patton
