My high-tech operation

There’s nothing like the day a new book arrives. The feel. The smell. The wooden pallets. The tiny elevator. I run a funny operation, what anyone would have to call vineyard specific. My books are printed in exotic locales – the mainland of China, Hong Kong, little towns in Canada. I spend months negotiating via email with the printers, who all have English-speaking American reps. If the books are coming from China, they’re shipped in a container... Read More

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. The place she stayed had little heat, no running water, and no telephone. She had to cross two bodies of water to get there, and she remembers little about the trip except one thing: freedom. Pimpneymouse The Last Farm on Chappaquiddick is a book for anyone who has... Read More

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 Railway have brought vitality to the future of traditional wooden boat building and illumination to the finer skills of traditional seamanship. With its stirringly lovely photographs, this book is as wonderful to peruse as it... Read More

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 use the most creative of design elements- tile- to bring home the part of the island they love the best. This is a book to look at for pleasure and for inspiration, from bathrooms that feature mosaics of a breaching whale to... Read More

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. Here, rich in detail and lush with the photographs of Alison Shaw, is the story of how the farm came to exist, the family that makes it happen, and the food that excites us all. The 70 recipes include favorites from both the farm stand and... Read More