A state law from 1647 gives private landholders exclusive rights to their beaches, and some Island towns exclude non-residents from enjoying a day at their stretches of sand. Whether beaches should be open to the public is an ongoing topic of debate on the Vineyard.
By Mike Seccombe
The Chappy ferry is making headlines. Passenger rates may go up, the lines may get longer, and the owner plans to sell. A look at the history of the service shows this isn’t exactly new news.
By Tom Dunlop
Reach out and grab the brass ring.
By Geoff Currier
When a former New Yorker finds herself with a couple of goats, she discovers there’s more to know about poison ivy, Pepto-Bismol, and the critters’ strong personalities.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
A Chappaquiddicker’s favorite stretch of sand.
By Margaret Knight
It carried me home. Even to this day, rounding that final curve, part of me always hopes it will be the Islander I see in the slip, because of the early, visceral memory I have that it is the boat that brings me home.
By Nicole Galland
When a skunk comes a-knocking . . .
By Shirley W. Mahew, Sally Bennett, and Jib Ellis
Have you been laid low – yet – by this bloodsucker the size of a pinhead?
By Mike Seccombe
Bats are the Kobayashis of the animal kingdom.
By Geoff Currier
In 1971, if you had an idea to do something as ambitious and potentially dangerous as a horse race, you just did it.
By Geoff Currier
No one knows for certain who the first person was to create scrimshaw.
By Geoff Currier
The birth – and near death – of the new Vineyard ferry Island Home as it was being built in Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina arrived.
By Tom Dunlop
