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. 2, and from his house in Gay Head he looked...
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 82 years. “You could say I was born with a...
Bill Anderson knows a lot more than bikes
AKA the bicycle man, Mr. Anderson helped create a wall of protection against nuclear threat, starting with Chilmark's Peaked Hill.
In 1946 in the Westminster College gymnasium in Fulton, Mo., Sir Winston Churchill warned about...
Reverend Alden Besse has a high-flying 92nd birthday
Reverend Alden Besse celebrated his 92nd birthday by taking a biplane ride with his son Mark. Rev. Besse has long been well-loved in the community. He has been pastoral assistant at Grace Episcopal Church,...
Vacation or staycation? Twenty four hours on Nantucket
I’ve lived on Martha’s Vineyard for almost four years, and recently returned from my second trip to Nantucket in all that time. Chances are, most of you reading this don’t get there too often...
Seaplanes coming to the Vineyard
Cape Air announced last week it had acquired the assets of Shoreline Aviation, a seaplane operator based out of East Haven, Conn.
The acquisition includes 10 seaplane aircrafts, three owned by Shoreline and seven which...
Ask an Island Expert: What is a pinkletink?
“Pinkletink” is a Vineyard name for a tiny frog, known to biologists as Pseudacris crucifer. I’ve never heard “pinkletink” used anywhere other than on the Vineyard; “spring peeper” is a more widely used common...
Ask an Island Expert: What exactly is a beetlebung tree?
By Abigail Higgins
Beetlebung: a beautiful tree with a wonderful name. Many people are not especially tree-aware, but everyone perks up when they hear “beetlebung.” It is a catchy name, and belongs to a native...
Ask an Island Expert: What bird makes those big nests on top of poles...
Those are osprey, or Pandion haliaetus, if you’re a biologist. A summertime resident on the Island, the osprey is a common nesting species and a much-loved part of our bird life. Under wholly natural...
This Was Then: Selim Mattar’s Dreamland
Brothers Selim and Meek Mattar immigrated to the U.S. as teenagers, about 1890. They were natives of the city of Beirut, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and today the capital of Lebanon, but...
