If it weren’t for a rag-tag crew of Islanders, Jaws may never have made it to the big screen.

Do you have thoughts about what makes the Vineyard unique? Do you feel like you could pull a local out of a lineup of tourists? Live here long enough and you might pick up some strong opinions about ...

On a frigid day in February 2021, Marion Wilson was out on a walk when she came across a “for sale” sign on a small houseboat floating in the calm, shallow waters of Lagoon Pond in Vineyard Haven.

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Joseph Lee, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), has long navigated his roots in the tribal community on Martha’s Vineyard. As a journalist living in New York City, Lee’s work is ...

“It can be a huge, life-changing ordeal,” said Patrick Roden-Reynolds, the Island’s tick biologist and head of the Martha’s Vineyard Tick-Borne Illness Reduction Initiative (a.k.a. the MV Tick Program ...

No matter what you’re celebrating this weekend – or any weekend this summer – a show-stopping and delicious fruit tart is just what you need to feel festive. Plump, juicy berries piled high on a rich, ...

Aside from genealogy, little is known of Mayhew’s early life. His father, a “yeoman,” died when Mayhew was young. After growing up in the village of Tisbury, Mayhew settled in nearby Southampton as a ...

Social security enrollment, check. Mortgage paid off, check. And still I was packing up my belongings, moving to temporary quarters, and renting out my house by the week to summer tenants. Twenty ...

For more than a decade I’ve been a part of the Best of the Vineyard contest, which Martha’s Vineyard Magazine has produced since 2001. I’ve sent congratulation emails to finalists, written the blurbs, ...

It’s summertime and the Island is humming. Streams of giddy tourists file off the ferry and lines of sunburnt visitors file back on. Car horns blare, fishing lines whizz out to sea, seagulls and ...

A half century ago America was more divided than it had been since the Civil War. More divided, even, than it is today. It was no different on Martha’s Vineyard.