A murder at Lake Tashmoo shocks the Vineyard and drives the recent assassination of Huey Long below the fold of major mainland dailies in the late summer of 1935.
Kristen Kingsbury Henshaw
On its sesquicentennial, Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, one of the oldest businesses on the Island, stands at the heart of a working Vineyard Haven harbor.
Tom Dunlop
Two little women from Chilmark tour the country with General Tom Thumb.
Tom Dunlop
Art Railton has been researching Vineyard history for almost thirty years, writing and editing stories for The Intelligencer, the quarterly journal of the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society. Now he’s written a book, the first comprehensive history of the Island to be published in 95 years. Not bad for a guy who doesn’t really believe in the idea of history at all.
Tom Dunlop
Two views of Trinity Park, shot eighty-seven years apart.
Tom Dunlop
The writer uncovers the 193-year history of his family’s Edgartown home.
Tom Dunlop
Thirty-five years ago, a leap to freedom ended in disaster one mile west of Menemsha.
Tom Dunlop
