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Elisha Smith, after eighty-plus years of farming on the Vineyard, talks turkey, chickens, cows, and more. Island apples, perfect right off the tree, and in entrees and desserts. A look at the first conservation land holdings on Martha’s Vineyard. Cynthia Riggs investigates her great-great-grandfather’s ship, the Niantic. Commuting on and off the rock to work. Which came first? Backyard chicken coops or fresh Island eggs. Metalwork by Whit Hanschka.

CURRENT ISSUE

ALANA & GARY
Sparks flew for Alana Segars and Gary DeBerry after three brief encounters over the 2005 Fourth of July weekend. They’re both longtime Island visitors from the New York area, but they had never met until the Vineyard finally brought them together. Read more...

A second-generation Vineyard wedding

TIFFIN & MIKE
Everything came full circle for Tiffin Pastor and Michael Eisenberg when they were married in September by Bob Nye, the same man who had introduced them in 2005. In keeping with the symmetry of the occasion, the New York couple’s Vineyard wedding also came thirty years after Tiffin’s parents were married here. Read more...

Sailing away

LOUISA & JB
This bride wanted a church wedding and a wedding on a boat. Since she couldn’t have both, they decided to continue the festivities after Saturday’s official ceremony and reception – the next day, after Sunday brunch, they had a boat blessing in Vineyard Haven harbor. Read more...

2009 ISSUE

When the wedding planner is the MOB

NISA & TIMOTHY
She is the person the wedding planner tries her best to please, the one the caterer feeds with bated breath. She is not the bride. No, she is the mother of the bride, the MOB to those in the industry. Read more...

Married at sea

ALISON & CHRISTOPHER
The bride wore a thrift-store dress, and a parasol stood in for the veil. The groom, a vintage cutaway coat and a pith helmet. A friend officiated. Although the bill totaled less than $2,000, it was not a pauper’s wedding. Read more...

A Jaws-themed wedding

KATE & MARTIN
If you want a truly Vineyard Wedding, skip the black labs and pink whales, and invite a twenty-five-foot-long shark with teeth the size of shot glasses. Jaws has been the running gag on the Island with visitors and Vineyarders alike for three decades. Read more...

2008 ISSUE

Love and marriage - with cyber style

MONIQUE & STEVE
Google “destination weddings” and more than two million sites pop up in less than two seconds. It takes serendipity, savvy, and persistence to create the perfect wedding from cyberspace. Monique Adams and Steve Pinckney did it though, from half a world away in Australia. Read more...

In love, in fashion

MEAGHAN & NICO
When Meaghan Orcutt and Nico Esposito met at a Miami bar in March 2004, she never expected to quit graduate school in North Carolina and move to New York City to be with him by that fall. She also never expected him to propose... Read more...