Charlie Blair was five years old, living in a summer house on Katama Bay in Edgartown, when Hurricane Carol slashed the Vineyard on August 31, 1954, sixty years ago this summer.
By Tom Dunlop
An Island couple defies the prevailing wisdom that you should never, ever, ever play tennis with your spouse.
By Karla Araujo
Ten years after the decision she wrote changed America forever, Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall reflects on democracy, marriage, and her intimate relationship with the Vineyard.
By Mary Breslauer
In 1953 I found a wooden Atom in the mouth of a dead shark on South Beach. It was the first plug that I owned, and a couple of weeks later I caught a striper on it. That began my decades-long love affair with striped bass plugs, which continues to this day.
By Kib Bramhall
Like many Vineyard regulars, writer Elizabeth Gates is wondering how we got here and where we're going.
By Elizabeth Gates
Captain: Fred Murphy Home Port: Vineyard Haven harbor The Name: Ishmael The Boat: Forty-eight-foot knockabout (i.e., no bowsprit) schooner
By Ivy Ashe
Paris has the Louvre, London the British Museum. Washington has the Smithsonian, and now the Smithsonian has the Vineyard.
By Jessica B. Harris
The Map Thief; You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements;
By Al Styron
The artist and musician Sally Taylor was traveling with her family and the voice in her head was getting clearer.
By Heidi Sistare
I knew it was only a matter of time before my mother sent her first text message.
By Julia Rappaport
It was all very genteel, downright “Corinthian” as sailors would say, referring to the British tradition of “gentlemen sailors” who race around buoys for the pure honor of being able to say they won.
By Sean McNeill
