Era’s end in Menemsha: A guest blog

  “Let’s go to Menemsha, dad,” was a common request from my daughters who spent summers here for over twenty years. We snacked and skunk-watched at the “Bite,” a seemingly incongruous combo to tourists who marveled at how calm regulars were. Catching hermit crabs in the creek followed as we meandered down to the dock to watch the various catches of the day landed and hauled out to Larsen’s and Poole’s (now Menemsha’s) markets... Read More

Passion on a small island, plus free stuff!

Why does the Vineyard inspire such passion? It’s a small place. In the scheme of things in the big world, it is fairly unimportant. It doesn’t manufacture anything. It has no big government. It has no famous museums or restaurants that serve foam food or periodicals that dominate world politics. We are so removed from the mainland that we call that body of land “America.” We’re The Island. We like it like that. But the fervor with which... Read More