Springtime blooms are groundbreaking.
Springtime blooms are groundbreaking.
Ice skating purists this weekend bypassed the indoor rink and headed straight for Edgartown's Jernegan Pond, one of the first to ice over as cold gripped the Vineyard.
This past week the crispness of winter has settled in, we think.
It’s been a weird weekend. First came Saturday’s bitter cold — bitter, at least, by Island standards. Then came Sunday’s thaw, and Islanders stepped outside for the first time.
The Vineyard is justifiably proud of its history as a place apart from the mainland, a place where African Americans were welcomed when they were not elsewhere.
The storm storm over, Vineyard children wasted no time grabbing their parents and heading to Sweetened Water Farm to get in some downhill runs.
The Vineyard in January. Not as many people see her then. Putting on hats and gloves replaces pulling on bathing suits and a walk on the beach may find you alone instead of weaving through pockets of people on blankets. But the beauty remains.
The wonders of snow falling up-Island fascinates and enchants us. Henry David Thoreau perhaps phrased it best: "How full of creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated. I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat!"
Snow is the companion of open fields and peaceful land, of hearthsides and the gray shingle of Island homes, of rolling moors and stonewalls up-Island, of the coastline that is our boundary with the sea.
More than 4,000 rapid home Covid-19 test kits were given out Tuesday as part of a federal government distribution, coordinated by Island Healthcare and the Island boards of health.
Thirteen teams fanned out across the Island Sunday for the 62nd annual Martha's Vineyard Christmas Bird Count.
Looking forward, we begin 2022 with plenty of hope for this Island that still holds its place for its quality of life.
It was balmy (for January) temperature-wise when a hardy group of people took a polar plunge into Nantucket Sound at Inkwell Beach to celebrate the New Year.
The Island economy rebounded in a big way in 2021: Visitors streamed off the ferries, businesses reported that 2021 was one of their best years ever, and the red hot real estate market grew white hot. Summer events were no longer virtual but in the open air.
Winter avian residents arrive and the occasional rare birds move through the Island in December, as winter begins.
Across the Vineyard, this holiday season unfolded in myriad small events that twinkled like so many lights on Island streets.
Friday dawned slate gray, as if nature had drained all color from the landscape. As light broke over the Vineyard the first flakes began to fall.