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
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
