Welcome to Martha’s Vineyard—a beautiful and beloved key destination for some 600,000 visitors a year. In this lavishly illustrated keepsake, islanders Phyllis Meras and Betsy Corsiglia p
Weathervanes, clocks, paintings, cigars, candy, and nautical instruments are but a few of the goods still being provided to Bostonians by the city's historic shops. Many of these purveyors date from t
This is the first biography of Henry Beetle Hough whose life is intertwined with the story of the weekly newspaper, the Vineyard Gazette, which he and his wife Betty received as a wedding present from
This is an affectionate look at the natural beauty of the 100-square-mile resort island of Marthas Vineyard, just off Cape Cod. It has been a prized vacation retreat since the Civil War. In more recen
In the Vilna ghetto during World War II, Nazi Commandant Schoger demands that all children be sent to the death camp. When Abraham Lipman pleads with him to spare their lives, Schoger reconsiders, an
“The most authoritative edition of Gonzalo Solis de Meras’s rare eye-witness account of Pedro Menendez de Aviles’s 1565 expedition to Florida, one of the earliest and most valuable accounts written ab
A source of solace to the bereaved offers a collection of writings, including Mark Twain on his daughter's death, William Styron on James Baldwin's death, and Robert Kennedy's remarks on the murder of
