The other night a friend from New York city called to see how I was doing. About a year and a half ago, my wife and I and our two small children...
This past Friday the Vineyard Gazette detailed the plans of Vineyard Power, the Island’s first energy cooperative, where predevelopment financing...
From a Gazette edition of 1930: There is no place on Martha’s Vineyard that seems so far apart from the earth as Cedar Neck, the miniature...
SHACK OWNERS REACT Editors, Vineyard Gazette: Two of the selectmen have decided to make the shack owners in Menemsha insure the lots they lease...
Hermits of the Bog
Shearer Cottage, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
My grandfather, Charles Shearer, was born into slavery. Henrietta Shearer was of Native American and African American descent. They were both...
Tisbury’s Good Idea The Tisbury selectmen are on the right track as they begin to explore the idea of a two-town venture in shellfish management...
Live from La Scala
Down the Half Court The regional high school boys basketball team is having a good year, winning half a share of the Eastern Athletic Conference...
Firemen pay respect to Danny Prowten
Northeast wind blowin’ whoo whoo Rain and sleet with wet mixed in snow The ducks were flyin’ fast and low. Bam, bam, I heard him down in Quenames...
Saskia and David Vanderhoop
I had my first taste of salsa dancing at a nightclub in Florida. A friend and professional dancer took the lead and spun me around a crowded dance...
Leona
Editor’s Note: The following is an edited excerpt of an interview done in 2004 by Linsey Lee with Leona Coleman Flu, the daughter of the first...

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