Matthew Stackpole News Today

Island notables will share their passion and expertise over coffee and confections in the Reading Rooms at the Carnegie Heritage Center. The impressive roster of guests includes former chief editor of Fine Cooking Magazine, and author of four cookbooks, Susie Middleton, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 10 am. Samantha Look, executive director of the Martha’s […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is celebrating its 100th birthday with a series of exhibitions and events that reflect the changes in their vision, growth, and purpose as the organization has evolved over the years. What began as a small group of like-minded Islanders wanting to preserve their history and informal collections of objects has become […]

The Vineyard seems to attract characters on a mission of one sort or another, and no one exemplifies this better than Robert S. Douglas, whose imprint on Vineyard Haven Harbor, wooden boatbuilding, and sailing in general has been transfiguring. Not many folks who first come here on a ferry fail to notice one of the […]

Rosalee Barnes was 18 years old when she met 17-year-old David McCullough at a dance at the Rolling Rock Club near Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1951. When she told him she was from Martha’s Vineyard, David pretended to know where she was talking about. He would later admit that he had to look it up in […]