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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four hundred years ago the paramount sachem of the Wampanoag nation made friends with the newly arrived Pilgrims at Plymouth. According to the award-winning author of the recent book This Land Is ...

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 ...

According to the ancient Greeks, there were at least six kinds of love: philia, or deep friendship; ludus, or playful love; agape, love for everyone; pragma, long-standing love; philautia, love of ...

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.

Your recipe-packed guide to cooking and eating deliciously in season, produced on Martha's Vineyard by the Vineyard Gazette Media Group and edited by former Fine Cooking editor and cookbook author ...

The Island’s geology had always seemed a static, case-closed subject to me. Then it happened that I was reading Robert Oldale’s book, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket: The Geologic Story, at ...

Sitting with my wife, Norma, in the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Cancer Center, I waited for an injection to boost my body’s production of white blood cells. Unexpectedly, I heard applause and cheers.

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 ...

There are so many ways to cook on the grill – direct or indirect, flip or not to flip, charcoal or gas, using a fish basket. This is just one method, but feel free to experiment to find your favorite.