Excerpts from author Nicole Galland’s upcoming novel Crossed capture what it would have been like for a landlubber on a massive sailing expedition during the Crusades.

Nicole Galland

Years ago, when my sons (now in their forties) were small, we lived in Lynn.

Mary-Jean Miner

A Chappaquiddicker’s favorite stretch of sand.

Margaret Knight

Kate’s column.

Kate Feiffer

Dining out on Martha’s Vineyard can be an adventure. Especially in the spring.

Carolyn O'Daly

It carried me home. Even to this day, rounding that final curve, part of me always hopes it will be the Islander I see in the slip, because of the early, visceral memory I have that it is the boat that brings me home.

Nicole Galland

Many Vineyard residents, both seasonal and year-round, don’t remember a time when the Islander wasn’t steaming back and forth from the mainland, and now that she’s gone, they miss her.

Laura D. Roosevelt

It’s been twenty years. I can talk about it now. In fact, I can even laugh. But trust me, when it happened I didn’t exactly see the humor.

Geoff Currier

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