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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
The moon, the hitchhikers, and other forces of nature
I am watching from my tree house as spring arrives. The birds at the feeder are suddenly very interesting, not just the winter chickadees and blue jays. The raccoons are happily knocking that feeder down again, after seeming to take the winter off. The guys are mowing my lawn, which suddenly got really high. I [...]
What we’re missing
Sometimes I wonder what we’ve done to ourselves. This week, I was in a local farm stand in Virginia, where the strawberries are already ripe and abundant. While leaning over them salivating, I heard a young woman say, “And, look, they even smell like strawberries!” Good grief, she was right. So right that when I [...]
Buying a car
All you Islanders can forget about reading this; you’ve already lived it. But for those of you with unquenchable curiosity about how we live on Martha’s Vineyard, this is a tale of three cars. (No, make that four.) My son, Christian, is a hard working 21-year-old Vineyarder with a car problem: A black, 2001, turbo [...]
Saying hello to a new season of books
Last week 6,000 books, representing three new titles, arrived on the Vineyard. It was just like Christmas. Four pallets of books were shipped in a container ship from Hong Kong to New York, then trucked to Wareham, MA, for transport to the Vineyard by Cape Cod Express. All this takes about six weeks; another [...]
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