A Brief History of Aquinnah
Aquinnah in a nutshell
Unlike the rest of the Island, most of Aquinnah is not rubble carried south by the glaciers and piled up here....
A Brief History of West Tisbury
In the first mega-subdivision in Island history, Thomas Mayhew gave permission (in 1668) to Miles Standish’s son and some buddies to go up Island...
A Brief History of Oak Bluffs
For two centuries after the arrival of the first English on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1640s, Oak Bluffs was a pleasant, but indistinguishable part...
A Brief History of Edgartown
The only person ever known to have officially “owned” both the island of Martha’s Vineyard and the island of Nantucket moved to Edgartown in...
A Brief History of Chilmark
Like the rest of Martha’s Vineyard, Chilmark was built more than ten thousand years ago by a conveyor-belt of ice that stretched all the...
A Brief History of Vineyard Haven
Let’s see if we can make this confusing: Tisbury is the official name of Vineyard Haven, and Vineyard Haven is the main year-round town...
Road Trip! Scenic Drives on Martha’s Vineyard
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Meet Dennis Ford, a Steamship Authority staple
On a gray, windy, misty May morning, the smile on Dennis Ford’s face shines through the dismal weather as he greets passengers disembarking from...
