Publisher's Note
In last week's (10/27/2016) issue of the Martha’s Vineyard Times we published a signed column (“Gone Hunting”) that included personal information regarding a person involved in the incidents described. The column’s author, Nelson Sigelman, is...
Gone Hunting: An Island duck hunter is the target of an angry squawk
Updated Friday, 3:30 pm *
A man with a baseball cap on backward stood at the edge of the marsh screaming at me on Saturday morning. Red face. Eyes wide open. Angry.
I didn’t know him...
Gone fishin’: Striped bass proved elusive on a foggy night
Generally speaking, I can accept those nights I go fishing and do not catch fish. One of the benefits of living on Martha’s Vineyard is that I can safely assume there will be another...
Gone huntin’: Don’t brake for turkeys
Martha’s Vineyard is fortunate to have flocks of turkeys; they are grand animals to look at, particularly a tom strutting his stuff in full feathered regalia. However, well-meaning people who treat the official wild...
Gone huntin’: A deer hunter tallies up the years
Midway through the two-week deer shotgun season that began on Monday, I will turn 65 years old. The fact that this will occur on a treestand I carried into the woods and hauled up...
Gone huntin’: Goose sausage proves to be good stuff
The large flock of geese continued to swim up the cove as I crouched behind a pile of brush fashioned into a blind overlooking Tisbury Great Pond Saturday morning, my ancient Browning humpback shotgun...
Gone huntin’: This houseguest arrived with a compound bow
A New York state butcher provides quality control for area hunters and a model for Island farmers.
On Martha’s Vineyard, women embraced by hunting’s bonds
No longer a man’s sport, hunting draws three Island women who describe their love of the lifestyle.