Liza and Fred Murrell had their eyes on a stately North Water Street home since they first discovered Martha’s Vineyard twenty-seven years ago. The Canadian couple and their young family established a ...

Menemsha is in Chilmark, but it doesn’t seem of Chilmark. There is no three-acre zoning in Menemsha, no private beaches with six-figure keys, no massive estates nestled secretly in the wooded hills ...

On a glorious late summer’s afternoon, the Gay Head Cliffs glow with color on one side; the sea gently laps at the warm sand on the other. Ah, nature! But on the strip of sand between cliff and sea ...

The net burst open and the sea spilled out onto the boat’s deck. A briny collection of ocean critters and bottom feeders flopped and scurried about, adjusting to their new surroundings inside a ...

It had been a long, dry winter for the dinosaurs of Massachusetts. The forest was parched and pools of standing water – draped in greenery and hosting plant-eating giants – had long since dried up.

The hippie invasion on the Vineyard in the sixties and seventies not only affected the culture of that day, but continues to influence the Island. In early july 1967, in a little cottage across the ...

The beloved Islander, gone now from Vineyard waters for three-and-a-half years, got this writer thinking about the fate of Island ferries from decades past. Thirty years ago, the ferry Islander ...

Some Cold War scientists perfected the art of injecting ticks with new diseases. Others released ticks into new areas to study their spread. But is that the end of the story? At a time when it seems ...

Scott Slarsky keeps a collection of vintage Oak Bluffs postcards on hand. The images date from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, a time of great change in the seaside town. The ...

Carla Cooper still remembers the day her life changed. It was in July of 2023, and Cooper, an Island ecologist, was in Menemsha when she ordered a hamburger and soft-serve ice cream. About two hours ...

Long before presidential limousines rumbled along dusty Island roads or visiting Hollywood celebrities were “packaged” for charity auctions, one of the movie industry’s most highly acclaimed actors ...

This ragout recipe was first published in my cookbook, Simple Green Suppers, and these days, I'm making this - or variations of it - more often as I try to incorporate meat-less meals into our week.