(And Marty Nadler’s favorite snappy answers.)
Croquet – considered risqué in the nineteenth century and snooty in the twentieth – retakes the field on the Vineyard (and welcomes all comers) in the twenty-first.
Jim Kaplan
A 22-year-old native of Chappaquiddick, serving as second mate aboard the traditional schooner Pride of Baltimore II, sails across the Atlantic for the first time in her life.
Lily Morris
Minding his own business.
Mike Seccombe
Executive Director of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.
Kate Feiffer
The Franklins, who run Vineyard Photo, keep a project in motion at home.
Margaret Knight
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
For nine years, Rick Haslet of Chappaquiddick has been building a boat he’s dreamed of since 1978. There’s one little detail that might keep her from being launched this summer as planned: she’s got to be perfect.
Sam Low