For nine years, Rick Haslet of Chappaquiddick has been building a boat he’s dreamed of since 1978. There’s one little detail that might keep her from being launched this summer as planned: she’s got to be perfect.

Sam Low

How Charlayne Hunter-Gault got here.

Laura D. Roosevelt

Dominic Zachorne builds a model.

Elaine Lembo

Defying uneven ground, bushes, sand, rocks, and divots, an up-Island game of softball thrives off Tabor House Road.

Jim Kaplan

My assignment: Find out the answer by getting myself from Oak Bluffs to Aquinnah and back, using thumb power alone.

Holly Nadler

How do you get the chance to interview a man whose father planted slices of bread in the ground in Greece and discovered a primitive form of penicillin?

Tom Dresser

A father-son fish tale.

Shelley Christiansen

Moderation is everything – especially when it’s your job to run town meeting, the purest form of democracy on earth.

Margaret Knight

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