In the end, our short film fit the first annual Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival’s Shoot Locally, Think Globally theme to a T.
By Jonathan Skurnik
The birth – and near death – of the new Vineyard ferry Island Home as it was being built in Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina arrived.
By Tom Dunlop
Ask Matt Pelikan, Islands program director for The Nature Conservancy, to nominate his favorite natural places on Martha’s Vineyard, and he is both enthusiastic and cautionary.
By Mike Seccombe
Neighbors demand the return of a tree whose time had come – and gone.
By Margaret Knight
On the Vineyard, a club of dedicated horticulturists practices the ancient and meticulous skill of growing trees in miniature.
By Sally Bennett
In copper, bronze, and brass, sculptor Marla Stelk reimagines an armored denizen of the deep.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
When work contends with real life in a home office out behind the home.
By Geoff Currier
A new book illustrates how artist Allen Whiting draws inspiration from family and farm.
By Mike Seccombe
On Chappaquiddick, the departure of only one or two folks living just across the way can suddenly make the little island feel a whole lot emptier.
By Margaret Knight
Against all odds, Tom Turner of Katama has established a one-man lumber industry using timber nobody else wanted from the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest.
By Mike Seccombe
A few years ago, my family and I were lucky enough to build a home on the Island. We hired a reliable builder, a lifelong friend who produced a Vineyard miracle: we moved in six weeks early and under budget.
By Tina Miller