04.01.14

Perched above Lambert’s Cove Road in West Tisbury, with views across the wetlands to Vineyard Sound and the Elizabeth Islands, The Folly is Friederike and Jeremy Biggs’s unexpected paean to classical Italian living. Their two-story stucco villa and surrounding seventeen acres reflect the couple’s passion for travel, art, romance, whimsy, comfort, and natural beauty.

By Karla Araujo

04.01.14

To boot or not to boot? It is but one of the questions.

By Alexandra Bullen Coutts

04.01.14

On a bluff overlooking Stonewall Beach in Chilmark, architect Peter Rose has designed a remarkable home for the age of erosion.

04.01.14

With a house full of fine art and fields full of ponies, pigs, and goats, Cynthia and Scott Bermudes, along with their teenage daughters Paris and Anais, are surrounded by the things they love.

By Susan Catling

04.01.14

Captain: Lynne Fraker Home Port: Lake Tashmoo The Name: Ena.“She’s named after my grandmother.” The Boat: Thirty-four-foot Malabar Senior made of mahogany over oak, built by theAlden Design Office in 1957.

By Ivy Ashe

04.01.14

We’ve all heard the complaints – some Island towns are saddled with higher property taxes, while others are among the lowest in the state. The residential tax rate in Chilmark is a mere $2.48 per thousand dollars of property value, for instance, while over in Tisbury it’s more than three times as much at $8.39. Pop into any Vineyard cocktail party and you’ll hear plenty of theories. Chilmark offers fewer municipal services than other towns, some will say.

04.01.14

I’ve just finished reading a book about what birds think. About migrating, mating, nesting, eating, and feeding. Even learning to fly.

By Wes Craven

04.01.14

This year, we vow in tones devout,We’ll pull all weeds the day they sprout!We’ll till, and all those other tasks!(“You wanna bet?” the garden asks.)

By D.A.W.

04.01.14

I first met Albert back in the eighties. My then-future wife rented his house in Edgartown one summer and I used to bump into him from time to time. Albert was a little rough around the edges and a bit of a free thinker, but basically a straight-up guy.

By Geoff Currier

04.01.14

The more time Amanda Moffat spends on the Vineyard, the more her work seems to reflect the sea and sky.

By Kate Doyle Hooper

04.01.14

I first explored Menemsha Hills more than fifty years ago, when the trails we followed were mostly made by cattle and deer. In the early 1940s, my father, with the aid of friends, had stacked a pile of boulders on the summit of Prospect Hill. His goal was to make the top of the pile roughly three feet higher than the 311-foot Peaked Hill, which is the Island’s highest point.

By Albert O. Fischer

04.01.14

Leo Cooper of Stamford, Connecticut, invented the Goo-Goo Eyes plug in the late 1950s to bewitch big striped bass. It worked. On the night of June 16, 1967, Charlie Cinto caught the Massachusetts state record seventy-three-pound striped bass while trolling a blue and white Goo-Goo Eyes Big Daddy at Cuttyhunk with Captain Frank Sabatowski.

By Kib Bramhall

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