Each August, a very small fireworks company shoots a very big show over Oak Bluffs.

Tom Dunlop and Tom Flynn

(And Marty Nadler’s favorite snappy answers.)

Croquet – considered risqué in the nineteenth century and snooty in the twentieth – retakes the field on the Vineyard (and welcomes all comers) in the twenty-first.

Jim Kaplan

A 22-year-old native of Chappaquiddick, serving as second mate aboard the traditional schooner Pride of Baltimore II, sails across the Atlantic for the first time in her life.

Lily Morris

Minding his own business.

Mike Seccombe

Executive Director of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.

Kate Feiffer

The Franklins, who run Vineyard Photo, keep a project in motion at home.

Margaret Knight

Art Railton has been researching Vineyard history for almost thirty years, writing and editing stories for The Intelligencer, the quarterly journal of the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society. Now he’s written a book, the first comprehensive history of the Island to be published in 95 years. Not bad for a guy who doesn’t really believe in the idea of history at all.

Tom Dunlop

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