Wolfie Blair had one of those ah-ha moments: What if kids could actually access the solid basics of saltwater fishing and some tricks of the cast from the get-go?
By Mary Breslauer
What could be more beautiful, more thrilling to watch than a horse, mane and tail flying, as it races along a Vineyard beach? Add a surfer, towed by the horse, and you get the new sport of, well, horse surfing. This spectacular event takes place in early fall on the edge of Sengekontacket Pond.
By Brooks Robards
The hidden world of underwater sound is now available to anyone with an Internet connection, thanks to the Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database presented by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
By Sara Brown
No one is certain why northern long-eared bats are surviving on the Vineyard when they are dying everywhere else. But the search is on.
By Alex Elvin
The things that only night swimmers and fisherfolk have seen.
By Remy Tumin
The Chesapeake may be crab country, but their same famed blue crabs – the ones New England restaurateur and cookbook author Jasper White has called “the gold standard for crab cocktail” – swim along our shores, too.
By Vanessa Czarnecki
Some have called the Andrea Doria the Mount Everest of shipwrecks. But in early June, a manned submersible successfully visited the wreak, bringing back new sonar images.
By Sara Brown
Hiding in plain sight.
By Kib Bramhall
Oceans, islands, lost arts, and the man who fell in love with a canoe.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
The new red-white-and-blue vessel that’s joined the Woods Hole waterfront might look unassuming, but it actually has more in common with a spaceship than with any sailboat in Vineyard Sound.
By Sara Brown
"The hike from Lobsterville to Menemsha and back on the gravel and sand beach has been called the ‘Death March’ by the few who have survived.”
By Kib Bramhall
Where you are going, deep into the woods, all you need is a loincloth. Or, if feeling modest, a pair of shorts and a T-shirt will do.
By Bill Eville
