Paul Karasik

The tale of the heath hen is a Vineyard story. In a Gazette article published April 21, 1933, this lament was written: “Somewhere on the great plain of Martha’s Vineyard death and the heath hen have...

That the world’s lone heath hen, Martha’s Vineyard’s most famous resident, was still alive September 13, is vouched for by Dr. John A. Phillips, president of the Massachusetts Fish and Game...

The State, acting through the fish and game commission, has under consideration the purchase of the 600-acre farm of Antone Andrews, located on the Martha’s Vineyard plain, near Little Pond some...

Buried deep within the woods of the Manuel Correllus State Forest is a statue of Booming Ben, the world’s final heath hen. Once common all along the eastern seaboard, the species was hunted to near-...

From the April 5, 1929 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: A single male heath hen, almost certainly the sole survivor of its species in the whole world, showed itself this week to Dr. Alfred O. Gross...

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