Liza and Fred Murrell had their eyes on a stately North Water Street home since they first discovered Martha’s Vineyard twenty-seven years ago. The Canadian couple and their young family established a ...

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 ...

A childhood house, like a game of make-believe, is at once enveloping and beyond reach. Architect Aaron Schiller recently stood in the backyard of his, a mid-twentieth-century A-frame cottage off ...

Sitting with my wife, Norma, in the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Cancer Center, I waited for an injection to boost my body’s production of white blood cells. Unexpectedly, I heard applause and cheers.

The net burst open and the sea spilled out onto the boat’s deck. A briny collection of ocean critters and bottom feeders flopped and scurried about, adjusting to their new surroundings inside a ...

More an idea or a suggestion rather than a hard and fast recipe, these tacos came about on a Sunday evening after a Saturday night dinner of grilled swordfish. Looking in the fridge at our leftovers, ...

Before Danroy “Dan” and Angella Henry purchased the house now known as Dragonfly at the corner of Canonicus and Seaview Avenues in Oak Bluffs, they had a summer home on Cape Cod. The “beauty, charm, ...

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.

In 1941, when Loïs Mailou Jones entered her iconic painting Indian Shops, Gay Head, Massachusetts in a competition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., she had a friend submit the work.

For Kahina Van Dyke, financial services executive and owner of the Narragansett House bed and breakfast in Oak Bluffs, purchasing a home on Martha’s Vineyard wasn’t only about summer vacations or ...

The hippie invasion on the Vineyard in the sixties and seventies not only affected the culture of that day, but continues to influence the Island. In early july 1967, in a little cottage across the ...

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 ...