Martha's Vineyard Magazine took home four first-place titles at this year's New England Newspaper & Press Association ...

The first chives to come up in the garden always make me want to jump into spring cooking. I know that local asparagus is still weeks away, but I can’t wait. A warm salad of red potatoes and asparagus ...

On a bright but brisk Sunday afternoon, Margaret Gonsalves Oliveira pulled her car off a dirt road on the island of Chappaquiddick and tromped through the woods to a small clearing, where reside the ...

Aquinnah, at the southwestern end of Martha’s Vineyard, is deservedly famous for its red and white clay, the raw material that paints the Gay Head Cliffs in such spectacular colors that they’re a must ...

Carla Cooper still remembers the day her life changed. It was in July of 2023, and Cooper, an Island ecologist, was in Menemsha when she ordered a hamburger and soft-serve ice cream. About two hours ...

It had been a long, dry winter for the dinosaurs of Massachusetts. The forest was parched and pools of standing water – draped in greenery and hosting plant-eating giants – had long since dried up.

The Island’s geology had always seemed a static, case-closed subject to me. Then it happened that I was reading Robert Oldale’s book, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket: The Geologic Story, at ...

It’s hard to miss the Boch mansion on Edgartown harbor. Occupying 15 acres of prime real estate, the 15,000-square-foot home rises up at the shoreline like a beacon. And in many ways it is: with 214 ...

Some Cold War scientists perfected the art of injecting ticks with new diseases. Others released ticks into new areas to study their spread. But is that the end of the story? At a time when it seems ...

In the midst of dense, heavy fog atop calm waters outside New Bedford Harbor about thirty years ago, Buddy Vanderhoop piloted a boat home bearing sacred cargo. Vanderhoop, a well-known charter ...

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, ...

On a glorious late summer’s afternoon, the Gay Head Cliffs glow with color on one side; the sea gently laps at the warm sand on the other. Ah, nature! But on the strip of sand between cliff and sea ...