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If it weren’t for a rag-tag crew of Islanders, Jaws may never have made it to the big screen.
For a festive summer dessert, you can't beat a fruit tart. Mine takes this classic dessert and updates it with a gingersnap crust and a lightened pastry cream. (You can, if you prefer, also use ...
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.
“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 ...
These simple, comforting lamb meatballs, dotted with creamy feta from Mermaid Farm in Chilmark, are one of Kaila Allen-Posin’s go-to midweek dinners for her family. They’re fun (and only just a little ...
Leo Cooper of Stamford, Connecticut, invented the Goo-Goo Eyes plug in the late 1950s to bewitch big striped bass. It worked. On the night of June 16, 1967, Charlie Cinto caught the Massachusetts ...
According to the ancient Greeks, there were at least six kinds of love: philia, or deep friendship; ludus, or playful love; agape, love for everyone; pragma, long-standing love; philautia, love of ...
IHT’s Meshacket Commons and Southern Tier properties are set to comprise multiple acres, some of which is reserved for open space. “A certain percentage of the site can’t be built on, and the housing ...
Perfect for Easter or Passover, this recipe features bold flavors in a thick marinade that almost forms a crust around the lamb as it cooks. The mint, garlic, ginger, orange and balsamic are great ...
One of the great joys of growing your own cut flowers is that you can have fresh bouquets in your home throughout the growing season. By incorporating cold-hardy annuals, bulbs, perennials, shrubs, ...
At Waskosim’s Rock Reservation in Chilmark, a 185-acre swath of public land owned and operated by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission, it’s easy to see history’s footprints. Most famously, ...