Known by a lyrical name – the Place on the Wayside – this tablet, set in granite in 1901 and rededicated in 2008 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, marks the earliest event recalled by a monument on the Island.
By Tom Dunlop
If you were to die tomorrow, what would you regret missing, not doing, or not being?
By Jim Miller
Pilot gigs, open-sea rowing boats, date back to the late seventeenth century. They measure thirty-two feet long with a beam just under five feet, oars up to thirteen feet long, and seating for a team of six.
By C.K. Wolfson
A venerable Island leader with a longtime construction business, John Early talks about life on the Vineyard, how affordable housing here should change, and lessons he learned in the Peace Corps.
By Rachel Orr
The Island’s regional high school engages about half its students every year in a wide range of art, design, and technology courses. That’s twice the national average.
By Brooks Robards
This magazine is dedicated to people’s passions.
By Nicki Miller
The maple grieves her scarlet leaves;The woods seem bleak and dead,Till hunters dressed in hat and vestContribute DayGlo red.
By D.A.W.
The list of things we meant to do“As soon as summertime is through”Becomes the list we start to call“To do before the end of fall.”
By D.A.W.
A year ago this fall and again in the spring, I did a lot of new planting around my yard.
By Nicki Miller
Entrepreneurship is the lifeblood of the economy, and on Martha’s Vineyard that’s even more true than places where big factories or institutions create jobs. To make it here often means going it alone.
By Jim Miller
