Sections

Local Liqueur

Making cordials with the wild fruits of fall.

One Bad Crab

Can the invasive green crab be stopped before it decimates the Vineyard’s shellfish industry?

QE2 on the Rocks

Thirty years ago, the great ship didn’t go down in Vineyard waters, thank goodness. But it didn’t make it to New York either.

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People

Asking Amy

Amy Brenneman talks new projects and old memories on the Island.

By Alexandra Bullen Coutts

Essays & Humor, Wild Things

Singing Those Bonito Blues

Hard to find, hard to hook, and hard to land, Atlantic bonito are impossible to forget.

By Ed Mitchell
"The power these words hold is about to begin an expansion of consciousness – for the young couple, for the small town, the small Island, and beyond. The words are these: ‘Maybe we should get a cow?’"

Essays & Humor

Flotsam & Jetsam

Recent news you can sort of use.

Arts + Commerce, History

Beads of Memory

Today’s Wampanoag wampum makers are continuing an artistic tradition dating back thousands of years.

By Paula Peters

Wild Things

Something in the Water

Toxic cyanobacteria blooms – a global environmental problem – have come to the Vineyard. Scientists are working to understand how the blooms behave within the Island’s unique ecosystems, and how to keep people safe.

By James Dinneen

 

 

The now legendary demolition derbies, a.k.a. the Crunches, took place in Aquinnah around Columbus Day weekend of 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 with Vineyard Sound providing a gorgeous backdrop.

This video shows one of the final runs of 1982 when Jackie Clason - driving her Chevy Vega, called Joy to Destroy - was sideswiped, causing her car to flip over. Immediately, people ran to the rescue and righted the car.