Thomas Hart Benton brought this essay, both an obituary and a biography of a dog named Jake, to the office of the Vineyard Gazette in August 1946 and asked editor Henry Beetle Hough whether he cared to publish it.
By Thomas Hart Benton
Rhonda and Erik Albert and their children Iris and Miles live in an old sixteen-room house in Oak Bluffs. Last year they had nearly a thousand summer guests, and this year they’d like to have more.
By Margaret Knight
These are the sounds I hear on an early spring morning.
By Kate Feiffer
Baba Smith, Phyllis Aldrich, Sharon Smith, Sunny Wright, and Cynthia Fulton
By Brooks Robards
I may have been smart enough to move to Martha’s Vineyard, but now that I live here, I can’t figure out how to leave.
By Niki Patton
It’s springtime and the air on Martha’s Vineyard is filled with prospects of renewal, growth, and the abundance of change.
By Mark Jenkins
What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever seen out your window?
By Kate Feiffer
Just yesterday I was thinking, Gee, it’s January: January, February, March, April, May, the Vineyard.
By Mike Wallace
Once you told me long ago, To the prom with me you’d go; Now you’ve changed your mind it seems Someone else will hold my dreams....
By Brooks Robards
There’s no better way to turn your boat into a Chia Pet than to use the wrong antifouling bottom paint.
By Geoff Currier
The Frank E. Gannett was the first true ferry ever to serve Martha’s Vineyard.
