Meet the Brokers
Nya Clarke, Broker/Owner
Martha’s Vineyard Island-Wide Realty
What got you started in the brokerage business on the Vineyard?
I moved back to the Vineyard from a career in design in New York City. In some ways I...
Teach Me: Clamming
What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Zhang Heng, Donald Glover, and Emma Watson all have in common? They’re polymaths — renaissance men and women, talented in fields across several disciplines...
Arts for everyone
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Featherstone Center for the Arts, located on the old Stevens family farm in Oak Bluffs. It has grown and been renovated over the years, most recently in...
Domestic Disturbances: I just can’t do it
Last summer everybody and their brother worked diligently on how to plant, harvest, and preserve their own vegetables because we thought the end of the world was knocking on our door. I got as...
What’s in your cooler?
They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, but it’s what’s stashed away inside that really makes a beach day.
Whether it’s a crisp new Yeti, or a beat-up old Igloo that’s seen more than...
Gardens of Love: Steven Auerbach
I wanted to visit an Oak Bluffs garden and asked Shelley Christiansen if she might recommend someone, which is how I connected with Steven Auerbach who has been tending the corner of Nashawena and...
‘From the land’
For more than 12,000 years, members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) have called Martha’s Vineyard home.
Long before white settlers arrived on the Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands, the Wampanoag people...
Teach Me: Horse barn duties
What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Zhang Heng, Donald Glover, and Emma Watson all have in common? They’re polymaths — or renaissance men and women. Talented in fields across several...
The Entrepreneurs
India Rose
The Sideline Brand
49 Main St., Vineyard Haven
508-685-0484
sidelinebrand.com
Tell us about your new business — you opened in November?
We opened on Black Friday in this year of COVID. “The Sideline Brand, Luxury sports apparel and...
Meet the Deckers
In some respects, we’re all family on the Vineyard. We’re a diverse group, often fiercely independent, but united and drawn together by the fact that we’ve chosen to live in a place that’s surrounded...
Teach Me: Calligraphy
What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Zhang Heng, Donald Glover, and Emma Watson all have in common? They’re polymaths — or renaissance men and women. Talented in fields across several...
The Gleaners
Collecting excess produce from local farms and distributing it to people in need is not a new concept: It's been going on for centuries. Four Island gleaners give us an inside view to harvesting...
Design Q + A: Making a great room in Harthaven
The project: A family wanted a renovation of a Harthaven home that would include creating one large gathering space from several smaller rooms. The new great room would feature a large kitchen, a dining...
Teach Me: Knitting
What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Zhang Heng, Donald Glover, and Emma Watson all have in common? They’re polymaths — or renaissance men and women. Talented in fields across several...
The Jam and Jelly Makers
Culling berries from the Island’s beach plum bushes, strawberry patches, or Russian olive trees, or using pineapple and grapefruit from other places: Five jam and jelly makers share their secrets to success.
Linda Lee Alley,...
Home is where the art Is: a visit with Kara Taylor
It is not often that you walk into a house and it feels completely original, but that is the experience one has when crossing the threshold at artist Kara Taylor’s fairy tale of a...
Gardens of Love: Marie Larsen
It's been four years since the Larsens, Dan of Edgartown Seafood and Marie, assistant to the director of the MV Charter School, moved to his family home at Beetlebung Corner in the center of...
Made on MVY: Beaded Mask Chains by Stefanie Wolf
Stefanie Wolf designs and sells jewelry and gifts at her studio and retail showroom in downtown Edgartown. For 11 years, she has created jewelry that uses colorful, geometric, handmade beads from a family-owned and...
Domestic Disturbances: Me and my garden
Everyone knows about the early panic buying at the beginning of COVID-19: the toilet paper, the yeast, the flour, the butter, but I just read that the horticulture industry experienced a surge in demand...
Made on MVY
Made on MVY features products created on Martha’s Vineyard, and is sponsored by the artisans and businesses collected here. Want to be included in our next issue? Email jenna@mvtimes.com.
Island Wampum
Island-born and raised Phoenix Rogers...