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Quiet Mission, Public Lands

The low-key green and white signposts that mark properties owned by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank so often belie the grandeur of what lies at the...

Gone Fishing

As if on cue for the sixty-seventh Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, the fish are running again. There was a bluefish feeding frenzy...

Roger Fisher’s Legacy

At a moment when the gulf separating our two dominant political parties seems never to have been wider, we are particularly saddened by...

Labor Day 2012

Signs that summer is coming to an end: Milkweed pods have burst in meadows and at marshy edges around the Island, scattering their seed-strewn...

Summer Symbolism

It’s a mistake to think that all significant events are unusual or out of the commonplace, or surrounded by some sensational circumstances. Take a...

Island as Classroom

Imagine a fully-accredited environmental studies program where as many as two hundred college students, faculty and graduate students would spend...

Summer Scrapbook

Not enough swimming. Too little time with summer friends. Clamming, kayaking, sailing: see swimming. Summer’s on the wane, outgoing ferries...

Arts in Bloom

On Wednesday night at the Cinema Circus, one of the short films shown was an animated adaptation of the book Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know...

Getting Real About Race

This is the month when the Vineyard finds itself barely afloat in a sea of events — endless fundraisers for nonprofits large and small, clambakes...

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