While it’s important that we engage in a serious discussion about the future of the Island – as we did in the August edition of the magazine – it’s also nice occasionally to look on the lighter side.
By Kate Feiffer
A trip with this professional charter captain provides inspiration for the most casual and die-hard anglers, from spring to fall, whether they’re casting around the rocks, on the flats, or in the rips.
By Tom Dunlop
No longer a commercial thoroughfare, the Dr. Fisher Road still spans the Island’s midsection – despite being overgrown in places and downright difficult to find.
By Tod Dimmick
Like many popes and kings, Denys Wortman of Vineyard Haven is the eighth in a dynastic lineup.
By Holly Nadler
Because of his research and advocacy work at the State Lobster Hatchery, John Hughes found a way to make a living on the Vineyard, discovered a winter hideaway in Puerto Rico – and met Marlon Brando.
By Phyllis Meras
The Fischer family comes together over a day of haying at Flat Point Farm.
By Margaret Knight
Last summer, a few friends received a phone call from an Island woman who had found a message in a bottle with their names on it.
By Meredith Downing
After Hurricane Carol roared through Martha’s Vineyard on August 31, 1954, Shirley Mayhew and her camera went to Menemsha harbor – where few others were allowed entry.
By Shirley Mayhew
The posthumous success of artist Stella Waitzkin.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
Excerpts from author Nicole Galland’s upcoming novel Crossed capture what it would have been like for a landlubber on a massive sailing expedition during the Crusades.
By Nicole Galland
The film and theater director, screenwriter, and painter first came to the Vineyard in her early twenties.
By Brooks Robards
A state law from 1647 gives private landholders exclusive rights to their beaches, and some Island towns exclude non-residents from enjoying a day at their stretches of sand. Whether beaches should be open to the public is an ongoing topic of debate on the Vineyard.
By Mike Seccombe
