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    10 Quick Tips About Martha’s Vineyard Real Estate

    Sponsored by MV Buyer Agents As you entertain the idea of buying a permanent residence or vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard, questions and uncertainties may circle through your mind. Instead of letting these doubts weigh...

    Memories of Fourth of July’s Past

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    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 House Bed and Breakfast. “Oh, Fourth of July, this town ...

    A look back at the ‘tinman’ of Edgartown

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    For nearly 50 years, Charles Mayhew ran a popular Edgartown hardware business, selling stoves, plumbing supplies, dishes, kettles, keys, cinder shovels, pumps, pipes, wire, pots and pans, glassware, and even a few groceries from...

    Could the original name of the Island actually be Martin’s Vineyard?

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    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 was, nor our namesake. To start with, was it “Martha’s”...

    This Was Then: The Makonikey Inn of 1893

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    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, which is situated on the highest ground of Makonikey hights.”...

    At home with Russell Maloney and Jay Schmidt

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    My curiosity has been piqued ever since I started seeing Barnes moving trucks pull into the property on North Road across from North Tabor Farm. I never actually saw a “for sale” sign, but...

    Oak Bluffs rings in the holiday season

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    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 Hotel, Offshore Ale and along Circuit Avenue. There were free hayrides...

    How hard could it be to judge pets at the annual Ag Fair?

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    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 and the underwashed, the nouveau one-percenters and the gentry whose...

    How to Run a B & B (and the secrets of a baked bean...

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    The Cleaveland House B & B is at 620 West Tisbury Road in West Tisbury, and has been welcoming guests — mostly poets, writers, and other creative people — for almost 30 years. Cynthia...

    At Home: The Little House that Betty Built

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    There’s an old saying that people start to look like their dogs, but has it ever occurred to anyone that some people resemble their houses? On a recent rainy Tuesday, Betty Anne Wilson of Newburyport...