Captain William A. Martin of Edgartown was that rarest of things, an African American Whaling Captain.
As difficult, dangerous, and sometimes financially unrewarding as whaling was, it still beat slavery by miles. By some estimates thirty percent of the thousands of whalers before the Civil War were minorities. A few even overcame all the odds and rose through the ranks to command ships. More than thirty African American whaling captains have been identified, one of whom, William A. Martin, was born on Martha’s Vineyard.
Skip Finley
For more than half a century youth baseball has been one of the rites of spring – and of passage – on the Island.
Ivy Ashe
There is something oddly mesmerizing about Peter Simon’s recent double-DVD retrospective, Peter Simon’s Through the Lens.
Three generations of music-making in West Tisbury.
Shirley Mayhew
Novelist Richard North Patterson spends most of the year researching and writing, then enjoys his well-earned summers relaxing on Martha’s Vineyard.
Laura D. Roosevelt
They’re cruising in cars, splashing in surf, strolling up Circuit Avenue, and napping in the narcissus. Dogs are everywhere on Martha’s Vineyard - from the ubiquitous black Labs to the pedigreed Pomeranians and Rhodesian ridgebacks.
Karla Araujo
Now settled on the Vineyard, Rose Styron pursues lifelong passions and shepherds the legacy of her late husband, the author William Styron.
Brooks Robards
Seasonal and year-round residents of Chappaquiddick – separated from the rest of the Vineyard by Edgartown harbor and Katama Bay – share a love of its quiet seclusion.
Margaret Knight
