09.01.14

Charlie Blair was five years old, living in a summer house on Katama Bay in Edgartown, when Hurricane Carol slashed the Vineyard on August 31, 1954, sixty years ago this summer.

By Tom Dunlop

09.01.14

An Island couple defies the prevailing wisdom that you should never, ever, ever play tennis with your spouse.

By Karla Araujo

09.01.14

By Paul Karasik

08.01.14

Ten years after the decision she wrote changed America forever, Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall reflects on democracy, marriage, and her intimate relationship with the Vineyard.

By Mary Breslauer

08.01.14

In 1953 I found a wooden Atom in the mouth of a dead shark on South Beach. It was the first plug that I owned, and a couple of weeks later I caught a striper on it. That began my decades-long love affair with striped bass plugs, which continues to this day.

By Kib Bramhall

08.01.14

Like many Vineyard regulars, writer Elizabeth Gates is wondering how we got here and where we're going.

By Elizabeth Gates

08.01.14

Captain: Fred Murphy Home Port: Vineyard Haven harbor The Name: Ishmael The Boat: Forty-eight-foot knockabout (i.e., no bowsprit) schooner

By Ivy Ashe

08.01.14

Paris has the Louvre, London the British Museum. Washington has the Smithsonian, and now the Smithsonian has the Vineyard.

By Jessica B. Harris

08.01.14

The Map Thief; You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements;

By Al Styron

08.01.14

The artist and musician Sally Taylor was traveling with her family and the voice in her head was getting clearer.

By Heidi Sistare

08.01.14

I knew it was only a matter of time before my mother sent her first text message.

By Julia Rappaport

08.01.14

It was all very genteel, downright “Corinthian” as sailors would say, referring to the British tradition of “gentlemen sailors” who race around buoys for the pure honor of being able to say they won.

By Sean McNeill

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