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WEBIn 1885, Alexander Graham Bell traveled to the Vineyard to study the thriving Chilmark deaf community. His visit would eventually spark a protracted, controversial debate as to whether deaf people should abandon sign language in favor of the spoken word. Voting for Best of the Vineyard 2025 is now open! Winners will be announced in the July ...
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WEBMay 1, 2011 · James Cagney’s Island Refuge. The Oscar-winning actor was one of the first celebrity residents on the Vineyard, and today his former Chilmark homestead retains its charming rural character. Karla Araujo. Long before presidential limousines rumbled along dusty Island roads or visiting Hollywood celebrities were “packaged” for charity ...
Cook the Vineyard - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Join our Community and Become a Cook the Vineyard Subscriber. Susie Middleton. Thank you for being a part of our community of food lovers. We'd like to share some important news: The Cook the Vineyard newsletter is now being sent out through a platform called Substack, where we have more flexibility in the way we can offer content to …
And This is the House That Jackie Built - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBFeb 24, 2021 · Editor's Note: Hugh Newell Jacobsen died on March 4, 2021 at the age of ninety-one, shortly after this article was published in the Spring Home & Garden issue. In the late 1970s, Hugh Newell Jacobsen was a sought-after modernist architect among the Washington, D.C., social elite, designing primary houses in the metropolitan area and second homes in Florida, the Caribbean, and beyond.
The Last, Luckiest Ship - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBMay 1, 2014 · The Morgan sailed on three more voyages under non-Vineyard captains before coming home to New Bedford from the final one on May 28, 1921. By that point there was only one other whaleship left in New Bedford, the Wanderer, and both relics were spruced up to be used in the 1922 silent film classic Down to the Sea in Ships.After that, however, it appeared the Morgan would suffer the same end as ...
Being Ernie Boch - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBMar 1, 2015 · The moon and the stars aligned.”. Boch paid $2.95 million for the property and began the process of turning it into his own Island retreat. He dug out around the foundation and added windows to the basement, as well as a gym, a king-sized bed, and bunk beds, bringing the total number of bedrooms to seven.
The Inkwell - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBAug 1, 2017 · The Inkwell. The little strand at the end of Tuckernuck Avenue wasn’t always the Island’s most famous beach. But it has always been treasured. I am most assuredly not a beach person, yet I delight in informing the world that I have spent my almost sixty years of Vineyard summers living up the street from one of the Island’s most famous ...
A Focus on the Edge - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBAug 1, 2017 · A Focus on the Edge. Alison Shaw has photographed the Vineyard for more than four decades, but lately she’s found a new way to look at the Island she loves. Alison Shaw has been shooting Island seascapes for forty years, but her new work currently on display at both the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury and at …
Why We Love Menemsha - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBJun 15, 2012 · A picturesque inner harbor populated by old-fashioned fishing shacks and colorful boats. Peter Simon. Menemsha is in Chilmark, but it doesn’t seem of Chilmark. There is no three-acre zoning in Menemsha, no private beaches with six-figure keys, no massive estates nestled secretly in the wooded hills …
Encyclopedia Vineyardia: K - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
WEBAug 1, 2015 · Kelley House: Historic Edgartown hostelry that is the oldest inn operating relatively continuously on Martha’s Vineyard. Originally built in 1742 and called simply “the Tavern,” the inn has been periodically altered and has had many names over the years, including: Marcy House, Marcy Tavern, Vineyard House, Seaview House, Kelley House, Great Harbour Inn, and again, Kelley House.