Martha’s Vineyard boasts a lot of committed people who own, work in, and patronize our bookstores. Neither last year’s Fourth of July fire nor the growth of big-box chain stores and online retailers is dampening that spirit.

Kate Feiffer

The home of artist Margot Datz.

Margaret Knight

The off-season has provided an emotional challenge for Ben Williams, who graduated last spring from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Recently he discovered that his passion for laying rhyme over rhythm takes the chill off Island winters.

Ben Williams

It may not be Vegas, but people are playing Texas hold ’em all over the Vineyard.

Heather Curtis

In some excerpts from a new children’s chapter book, we meet a family that’s followed by rain clouds. After a storm delays the end of their island vacation, they head back to the city – but in their haste to catch the ferry, they forget one thing.

Kate Feiffer

Steve Ewing – wharf builder, conservationist, family man, poet – tells a story or two about a lifetime on the water, in the city, and on the Vineyard.

Tom Dunlop

To Whole Foods and beyond, Monica Skye Miller has grown a line of beauty care products – with roots on the Vineyard, Costa Rica, and around the globe – into a successful business.

Mike Seccombe

The Oak Bluffs summer resident talks about his routines on-Island, racial and class issues on the Vineyard, who will be the next president, and his sexy red tricycle.

Laura D. Roosevelt

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