A beautiful high headland overlooking Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, East Chop once hosted a semaphore station to relay news of arriving ships to the mainland and still hosts a lighthouse along with handsome, sprawling summer homes built in the Shingle or Queen Anne style and facing out to sea. Small streets run from the Chop back to the Highlands, an area of small parks and modest homes.

 

East Chop in the News

Swinging in the Years: East Chop Tennis Club Celebrates 100 Years

Town May Take Ownership of Fragile East Chop Bluff

Beacon of History

East Chop Bungalow Turns 100

Eroding Bluff Threatens Scenic Drive Along East Chop; Repairs Are Needed

 

East Chop Column: August 11
Rick Herrick

The sailing program at the yacht club is thriving with four instructors, 75 students, and 26 training boats, but it wasn’t always that way.

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East Chop Town Column: August 4
Rick Herrick

She first won the July women’s singles tournament in 1953. She has won it five additional times until last Sunday.

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East Chop Column: July 28
Rick Herrick

When I was a university professor, I often taught a new course because I wanted to learn more about a subject. In this spirit, I will focus this column on Baptist Temple Park.

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East Chop Town Column: July 21
Rick Herrick

The Pan-Mass Challenge is the most successful athletic fundraising event in the nation.

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East Chop Column: July 14
Rick Herrick

To paraphrase Bobby Kennedy, when some people are confronted with a challenge they say why. Others say why not. Paul Massey is a why not guy.

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East Chop Town Column: July 7
Rick Herrick

Dan Hogan is alive and amazingly well, but for several hours on Father’s Day it was nip and tuck.

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East Chop Town Column: June 30
Rick Herrick

On Thursday, July 6 at 5:30 pm, East Chop will gather at the beach club to celebrate the life of Scott Brooks. All are welcome. Scott died peacefully at his home in Stowe, Vt. on Feb. 14 with all of his family there. Scott was 77.

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East Chop Town Column: Sept. 2
Rick Herrick

We live in a very special community with a lot of interesting people. I am honored to tell their stories and plan to be back next summer with more of the same. For those of you leaving us after another East Chop summer, have a great winter.

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East Chop Town Column: August 26
Rick Herrick

Paul Massey frequently walks the neighborhood with his beloved black Lab. He will soon be running but not in this neighborhood or with Quinn. Paul wants to be mayor of New York city.

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East Chop Town Column: August 19
Rick Herrick

Dr. John Labis is assistant professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and director of musculoskelatal radiology at Houston Medical Hospital in Houston, Tex.

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