Bob Woodruff’s solar sailboat
Bob Woodruff and Porter Thompson. – Stacey Rupolo
Bob Woodruff moves about the deck of his 24-foot Kittiwake sloop with an agility that defies his...
Historic cows come home to Chilmark
I’m not a big cow person. They’re sort of like rural wallpaper, nothing to get overly excited about. And then I saw my first...
Who needs a ferry to get across Vineyard Sound?
66-year-old Bud Raymond swam from Naushon to the Vineyard on Sept 2. - Jim O'Connor
Mike Mayrand got up early on the morning of Sept....
Memories of Fourth of July’s Past
As told to Linsey Lee, Oral History Curator at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Courtesy of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
Elizabeth Marchant Sanchez
1901-1999; Edgartown proprietor, Marchant...
A look back at the ‘tinman’ of Edgartown
For nearly 50 years, Charles Mayhew ran a popular Edgartown hardware business, selling stoves, plumbing supplies, dishes, kettles, keys, cinder shovels, pumps, pipes, wire,...
Could the original name of the Island actually be Martin’s Vineyard?
Martha’s Vineyard … Martin’s Vineyard ... well, which is it, anyway?
Actually, historians have never been able to agree on what the Island's original English name...
This Was Then: The Makonikey Inn of 1893
In July 1893 the Boston Globe reported the opening of a new hotel on Martha’s Vineyard “called by the ultra-fashionable name of Makonikey Inn,...
Oak Bluffs rings in the holiday season
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Oak Bluffs. On Saturday the town continued its ongoing holiday festivities at the Ocean View...
How hard could it be to judge pets at the annual Ag Fair?
Permit me a small digression before we get to the fuzzy-wuzzy pet part ...
Putting aside all the usual categories of Vineyarders — the wash-ashores...
Treat Yourself
Photo by Sam Moore
Fourteen years ago Julie Huot and her sister Isabelle Morley opened a tanning salon on Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs. Today...
