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A New Hampshire man drowned in strong ocean surf Saturday afternoon at Quansoo Beach in Chilmark near the manmade cut in the barrier beach...
On and off, for almost 50 years, my family and I have been returning to the Island for at least one month every summer. My first rental in 1962 — a...
The anti-conservation comments made by fishing charter Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop in the July issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine about shooting...
His strong sense of being vic timized by White America was, I feel certain, what drove the behavior of Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., widely known as...
Unlike the farmhouse I rent on Middle Road, or Binty, the horse who whiles away her dotage in the meadow adjacent, I am not yet ancient. So what is...
If you’d gone out to the right fork at South Beach on any sunny summer afternoon in the last 40 years, you would have seen her. Dressed in long...
CONTRADICTIONS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Environmental Defense Fund:
I have just received a reminder to...
August Days Begin
This used to be called changeover weekend, when the July people left and the August people came. But the lines of tradition are...
Numbers tell the story, this year more than ever, for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, the Vineyard’s sole provider of a wide array of...
The Ceilidh on Vineyard Avenue
In Scottish, it’s called a ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee), which literally translates as a visit or gathering where...
Hiroshima Remembrance
On Thursday morning, August 6 at 6 a.m., the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council invites the Island to gather at sunrise by the...
Big Benefit Book Sale
The stacks are high, the tables laden: today come the crowds to the West Tisbury School gym, on Old County Road, for the...