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Two year ago, a good friend of mine invited me to join her on a trip to the family home on Martha ’s Vineyard. I happily agreed and instantly began...
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August 1974: Forty cowboys, cowgirls and assistants came to the Vineyard Saturday in 17 trucks and trailers to...
Chilmark prepares to welcome our first family this week for a 10-day vacation. I must confess to a flush of pride knowing that the leader of the free...
The president’s visit popularized Oak Bluffs and made for national headlines as newspapers described every event, activity, church service and meal...
Dorothy and Fletcher Jones had a farm in Wisconsin in the 1940s. When not harvesting his crops, Fletcher taught in the agricultural college at the...
The weekend weather was just delightful. The beaches were pleasantly full on Sunday and many cookouts were held over the weekend. The school,...
I feel that the weather deserves mention. Widely criticized for its July failures, it is coming through with some stellar efforts of late. Kudos to...
As the weatherman keeps saying, we are being teased with the fall-like weather. I don’t think any of us are complaining. It’s cool at night and warm...
Made in the U.S.A. That’s what I like to see. Somewhere on Island last summer I purchased two new plastic lawn chairs I desperately needed for my...
Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evening at the Chilmark Community center. The films begin at 6 p.m....
The historic Mayhew-Hancock-Mitchell House at Quansoo Farm is the topic of a presentation by Adam Moore of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation at an...
When Lorena Crespo moved to the Island six years ago, her English was shaky. So she enrolled in an English as a Second Language class taught by Lynn...