Ask Matt Pelikan, Islands program director for The Nature Conservancy, to nominate his favorite natural places on Martha’s Vineyard, and he is both enthusiastic and cautionary.
By Mike Seccombe
Against all odds, Tom Turner of Katama has established a one-man lumber industry using timber nobody else wanted from the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest.
By Mike Seccombe
The pilothouse of David Kadison’s sport-fishing boat is a utilitarian place.
By Ali Berlow
As a kid, hanging around the Concordia shipyard in Padanaram in New Bedford, Frank Rapoza was fascinated by the way boats were caulked.
By Geoff Currier
Nevin Sayre of Vineyard Haven, five-time U.S. windsurfing champion, launches himself into the brave new world of kiteboarding.
By Jim Kaplan
As we sat in the control tower, Michelle Meyers, the tower manager of the Martha’s Vineyard Airport, glanced out at the horizon and said, “All right, see this plane coming in?”
By Geoff Currier
Lobsterville Beach after dark in summer months is particularly alluring to Vineyard fishermen.
By Joe Tate
A few Menemsha lobstermen hang on to a way of life as the catch in southern New England hits a 25-year low. Scientists, regulators, and fishermen are debating the reasons why.
By Christine Schultz
Having paddled here, there, and everywhere, Carolyn Dowd comes home to lead kayak tours all around the Vineyard.
By Tom Dresser
My husband is having an affair of heart with Mabel, but I think I’m falling in love with her, too.
By Margaret Knight
A 22-year-old native of Chappaquiddick, serving as second mate aboard the traditional schooner Pride of Baltimore II, sails across the Atlantic for the first time in her life.
By Lily Morris
On its sesquicentennial, Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, one of the oldest businesses on the Island, stands at the heart of a working Vineyard Haven harbor.
By Tom Dunlop
