Excerpts from Palace Council, by the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, follow a young man through the fifties, as he establishes his name as a writer and works for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. There’s also a murder and his sister’s disappearance to drive the plot of this novel that’s sure to be seen on many a Vineyard beach this summer.

Stephen L. Carter

A photo of Island Theatre wins second place in a National Geographic Traveler contest.

Linda Black

Since 1992, the Vineyard Sound has been bringing a joyful, popular singing soundtrack – with no instruments – to Island summers.

Tom Dunlop

You can find them both playing organ, both on Kennebec Avenue, each at a different church.

Mary-Jean Miner

An excerpt from a new book by the former America’s Cup sailor and Vineyard photographer and gallery owner Louisa Gould.

Louisa Gould

Back in the seventeenth century, long before the advent of student loans and their attendant FAFSA forms, you could pay your Harvard tuition in wampum.

Geoff Currier

A gap in his knowledge of pre-Mayflower America led Tony Horwitz, the bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who lives in Vineyard Haven, to write a new history and travel book A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World.

Tony Horwitz

Pique assiette mosaic artist Jenifer Strachan is an artisan in the oldest sense of the word, a highly skilled craftsman.

Linda Black

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