After twenty years of focusing on her Vineyard Haven gallery, Nancy Shaw Cramer is ready to take a step back.
By Nicole Grace Mercier
I once had a friend who lived in an old farmhouse that had a five-foot blue racer snake living inside the walls. I asked him why he didn’t have it removed and he tersely replied: No mice.
By Geoff Currier
Bonnie McElaney Menton has a clear recollection of an evening forty years ago: the day John Lennon came for a slumber party.
Longtime Island regular Vernon E. Jordan Jr. recently received the 2014 “lifetime achievement award” from American Lawyer magazine for reasons too long to list.
In the 1950s, eating fresh, local food wasn't a fad. It was a necessity.
By Shirley Mayhew
One of the most famous of all striped bass plugs, the Reverse Atom was born on the beach at North Truro on Cape Cod on a hot August afternoon in 1949.
By Kib Bramhall
“I bought it last year – it wasn’t [called] Chocolate Chip. It was some ungodly name that you can’t even pronounce that meant nothing to me at all. I have a forty-four-footer, and the name of that boat is Hot Chocolate.”
By Ivy Ashe
The architecture magazineShows bathrooms gleaming and pristineWhose sinks, it seems, have never seenA toothbrush cup or Listerine
By D.A.W.
Photographer Peter Simon’s housemates pose in front of their semi-commune in Aquinnah, where they spent the summer outfitting the house with utilities.
Ever wonder why fly fishermen wear dishpans around their waists? These contraptions are called stripping baskets, and the Vineyard was a testing and proving ground for them. A stripping basket is a container into which fly line is retrieved or “stripped.” It gives the angler the ability to control the loose line so that it doesn’t tangle with rocks or seaweed or other detritus or get rolled up in breaking waves.
By Kib Bramhall
A studio visit with ceramic artist Jennifer McCurdy.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
Most of them have played together since grade school. Now in their last year of high school, the varsity boys' soccer team is poised to ... No, no, we don't want to jinx anything.
By Ivy Ashe
