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Book Video: Pimpneymouse the last farm on Chappaquiddick
This is a love story between a girl and her island. Almost eighty years ago, five-year-old Edo Potter came to an almost deserted island in the dead of a New England winter.
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Book Video: Schooner building a wooden boat on Martha’s Vineyard
Here is an exquisitely beautiful book about the creation of an elegantly beautiful wooden schooner, and the gifted artisans who built her. The many design and construction endeavors of the Gannon & Benjamin Marine
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Book Video:Martha’s Vineyard Tile hidden gems in island homes
Martha’s Vineyard Tile takes nine special places on the island off the coast of Massachusetts and uses them to define “Vineyard” style. It peeks inside the houses of residents and visitors to show how the owners
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Book Video:Morning Glory Farm and the family that feeds an island
Everyone on Martha’s Vineyard eventually ends up at Morning Glory Farm- celebrities, islanders, summer visitors, foodies. Buying fresh, locally grown and prepared foods from Morning Glory is a rite of passage.
My inspiration is the island. And when I get to see it through your eyes, I’m the luckiest person alive.
Journey of a Book
The Chappy Ferry Book: A Jaws Moment
At the end of the first weekend of sales of the new...
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Life on the Vineyard
Our working bunny
A white rabbit with pink eyes moved into my garage this week. He’s a working fool. Everyday Cottontail (he came pre-named) commutes to work in the back of my daughter’s silver truck. When he gets to his workplace, he’s put into the fields and ordered to eat. He eats all the grass and weeds [...]
Questions I really need the answers to
I came across a Reader’s Digest site the other day that promised answers to the 25 toughest questions in life. I started thinking about that and realized I had at least seven toughest questions to life on Martha’s Vineyard. See if I get the answers (and questions) right: 1. Why do they start tearing up [...]
Turkey rings: a new publishing tool
I want to tell you about a new book I’m publishing in July. But first, I want to tell you about turkey rings. If you’re like me, you’ve never ever heard of turkey rings. And when you hear about them, you immediately conjure up some pretty terrible images. Not true for Chris Decker at [...]
Downton Abbey: soap opera or British drama?
This really isn’t about the PBS series Downton Abbey. Like four million other people in the U.S. (and almost none in England), I’ve been swept into the lives of those living and working in the big English house before and during World War I. But, although I might enjoy writing about the future of Mr. Banks [...]
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