As the wooden fishing boat slows to a halt, twenty-three rods rest perpendicularly on the red metal railing waiting for the signal. When the motor cuts, the weighted and squid-baited lines drop immediately into the water, finding their way down about fifty feet to the bottom. Tap, tap, tap, the hits come nearly instantly. Within minutes, maybe even seconds, amid shouts and whoops, silver fish dangle from multiple lines.
By Catherine Walthers
Check Out That Librarian! Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness, by Jennifer Tseng. (Europa Editions)
For twenty years Chef Ben deForest has had a knack for creating Island restaurants that feel like parties you want to be at. But it hasn’t always been pretty.
By Karla Araujo
You start out diving for coins on Martha’s Vineyard and the next thing you know you are a Hollywood stunt dynasty.
By Ivy Ashe
You wouldn’t know it from a trip through Five Corners in Vineyard Haven, or the Triangle in Edgartown, but most Americans don’t take the time off they deserve. It’s not just hard-working laborers who are not permitted paid vacations by their Scroogian overlords, either, though that’s a huge problem and injustice: one in four Americans does not get a single paid vacation day. According to the U.S.
By Paul Schneider
What is a “bikini” anyway?
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
Where do you turn for a shoulder-season shoe when it’s too frosty for flip-flops, but too warm for boots? Reader, you turn to the clog.
By Alexandra Bullen Coutts
You trekked down to the beach, hauled your gear, and staked out the perfect spot. Why not save it in style?
It is becoming harder to pass the salt. Who is available to pass it?
By Charlie Nadler
“It was a beautiful August afternoon, and I was working on taking a photograph of the Gay Head Cliffs with just the right light..."
Meet the brains and brawn behind the new Rosewater Market in Edgartown.
By Erin Ryerson
