I’ve lived on Martha’s Vineyard for almost four years, and recently returned from my second trip to Nantucket in all that time. Chances are, most of you reading this don’t…
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As told to Linsey Lee, Oral History Curator at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Courtesy of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Elizabeth Marchant Sanchez 1901-1999; Edgartown proprietor, Marchant House Bed and…
For nearly 50 years, Charles Mayhew ran a popular Edgartown hardware business, selling stoves, plumbing supplies, dishes, kettles, keys, cinder shovels, pumps, pipes, wire, pots and pans, glassware, and even…
Martha’s Vineyard … Martin’s Vineyard … well, which is it, anyway? Actually, historians have never been able to agree on what the Island’s original English name was, nor our namesake. To…
Permit me a small digression before we get to the fuzzy-wuzzy pet part … Putting aside all the usual categories of Vineyarders — the wash-ashores and the underwashed, the nouveau…
Photo by Cathryn McCann Seventeen years after coming to the Vineyard from the Czech Republic, Sarka Havlatkova owns a holistic spa and natural beauty apothecary in Vineyard Haven that focuses…
Photo by Sam Moore Fourteen years ago Julie Huot and her sister Isabelle Morley opened a tanning salon on Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs. Today the multi-service spa offers much…
Photo Courtesy of Dina BenDavid After 12 years in the health care field, Dr. Dina BenDavid opened the Island’s first cosmetic enhancement center in 2014. What inspired you to get…
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard.
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard.
