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 was, nor our namesake. To start with, was it “Martha’s”...
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, which is situated on the highest ground of Makonikey hights.”...
At home with Russell Maloney and Jay Schmidt
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
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?
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...
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
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...
At Home with Ewell Hopkins and Kim Cartwright in Oak Bluffs
It’s pretty notable the way so many of us end up living on Martha’s Vineyard. Kimberly Cartwright, yoga instructor, intuitive spirit coach, mother of three, and wife of local mover and shaker Ewell Hopkins,...
Sponsored: Deck the halls with the help of Lisa Pyden
Local photographer and interior designer readies the historic hotel for the holidays. Plus she shares some DIY tips you can try at home.
Sponsored: Real estate secrets of Martha’s Vineyard revealed
Local real estate broker Fred Roven provides the ins and outs of purchasing your dream home on Martha's Vineyard. Here's what you should know.
