Over the past eight decades, the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby has become more than an annual fishing competition. It’s a way of life.
Nelson Sigelman
All across the country, lighthouses are falling into disuse and disrepair. In Aquinnah, a devoted group of townspeople are ensuring that the beacon will stand for another 150 years.
Louisa Hufstader
If it weren’t for a rag-tag crew of Islanders, Jaws may never have made it to the big screen.
Amelia Smith
The quest to replace a stained glass window reconnected two towns: one in England and its namesake on the Island.
Thomas Humphrey
When the Squibnocket Pond Reservation opens to the public this spring, the 323-acre property will call attention to a landscape that has been shaped and challenged by history.
David R. Foster
For the Indigenous people of the Island, bringing stolen ancestral remains home for reburial has been a protracted, often frustrating process.
Thomas Humphrey
In 1885, Alexander Graham Bell traveled to the Vineyard to study the thriving Chilmark deaf community. His visit would eventually spark a protracted, controversial debate as to whether deaf people should abandon sign language in favor of the spoken word.
Dan Jackson
Fifty years ago, when Universal Studios came to Martha’s Vineyard to shoot the seminal movie Jaws, neither side knew what they were getting into – or what they would get out of it.
Louisa Hufstader
