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

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

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

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