In 1966 Ward Just was seriously wounded while covering the war in Vietnam for the Washington Post. The following is the story he filed about the incident on July 17 of that year.
By Ward Just
Once upon a time it was standard wisdom that the hurricane of 1938 was the first and worst to hit the Island. But hidden in the bottom of coastal marshes, and in old logbooks and newspapers, is the true story of New England hurricanes.
By Tom Dunlop
Owner: Chris Morris, 20, Oak Bluffs Boat: Lucky Blue, nineteen-foot fiberglass Boston Whaler Montauk Home Port: The Morris backyard. It gets towed to landing sites when Chris goes out.
By Ivy Ashe
Three Parts Romance, two parts nostalgia with a dash of African American cultural history make A Martha’s Vineyard Love Story an enjoyable Island cocktail. This slim novel follows an unlikely pair whose enduring attraction might seem unbelievable to anyone who didn’t fall in love for the first time in August by the ocean.
It's stated (oftentimes to tease) That apples don't fall far from the trees, But pumpkins never leave the nest, Not even at their mom's request.
By D.A.W.
Lately food trucks are all the rage but they’re hardly a new idea. Cowboys driving cattle in the 1800s had what were probably the first food trucks – they called them chuck wagons. In the 1890s lunch wagons did a good business catering to late-night workers. And of course mobile food trucks have been around for years, serving up food at construction sites.
By Geoff Currier
With a name like Vaalbara – thought to be Earth’s first supercontinent – it’s no wonder Emily Prescott and James Burrows’s handmade bags are making their mark across the globe.
I thought I’d try to shed some light on the increasing tensions between hawks and doves by organizing a simple colloquy. A hawk on one side, a dove on the other, all within a safe environment.
By Wes Craven
Ed Jerome, current Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby president and former Edgartown school principal, sports a turtleneck–polo shirt combo and a mustache that’s unmistakably eighties at the derby headquarters.
No wet-weather wardrobe would be complete without a version of the classic yellow (or orange) rain slicker.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
Some say his magnificent new work, American Romantic, is his best book yet. But you can bet the writer's eighteenth novel won't be his last. Not even close.
By Bill Eville
Just when you thought we would never have good excuse to re-run our favorite picture of legendary Vineyard summer regular John Belushi, we found one.
