A name implies a family: fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles. A name implies friends, and perhaps enemies.
By Paul Schneider
Is the mysterious American eel, once a major source of food and income on the Island, in danger of disappearing altogether?
By Nelson Sigelman
Years before the first enslaved Africans were brought to North America in 1619, English slavers raided the Vineyard and elsewhere and took their prisoners back across the Atlantic. One Islander managed to return.
By Andrew Lipman
Martha’s Vineyard Construction Company celebrates its fiftieth year.
By Barry Stringfellow
As they could have told you back when Saigon fell and that previous “longest war” ended, the absence of conflict is a good thing, but it is not the same thing as peace.
By Paul Schneider
“It’s a very specialized and kind of rarified art form….Tapestry weaving, the need to build images, is ancient.”
By Nicole Grace Mercier
By Paul Karasik
Whose idea was it that pools couldn’t be alive? Or that ponds couldn’t be swimming pools? Not Daniel Whiting’s.
By Will Sennott
A coalition of young activists is optimistic that this time around the Island may, finally, be ready to create an affordable housing bank.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
At the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in Vineyard Haven, master stoneworker Lew French has created a mystical poetry garden in honor of the poet and human rights activist Rose Styron.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
