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See you at the Rigger

Geoff Currier -
For many Islanders and seasonal visitors alike, the Square Rigger restaurant at the Triangle in Edgartown is as much of an Island institution as...
History & Tradition

The Black Dog turns 50

Geoff Currier -
It all began with a cannon. A nine-inch muzzle-loading Dahlgren cannon that weighed nearly 10,000 pounds, to be precise. Captain Bob Douglas, founder of...
History & Tradition

Let’s raise a glass to Prohibition

Geoff Currier -
On a foggy evening on April 23, 1927, the fishing schooner Etta M. Burns was sailing back to New Bedford when the helmsman fell...
History & Tradition

Pies, cakes, art, and Richard Lee

Geoff Currier -
A smile traces the lips of Toni Cohen as she thinks back on a certain Halloween in 1977. “There were about a dozen people in...
Fishing

Flounder, fluke, and flying by the seat of your pants

Geoff Currier -
Bob Mone, owner of Mone Insurance, has a well-appointed office overlooking Vineyard Haven harbor. It’s decorated with a nautical motif; there’s a 5-foot admiralty...
History & Tradition

Recipe with a history: Joan Nathan’s Potato Latkes

Merissa Nathan Gerson -
Mrs. Wallace hosted a Christmas party every year when I was a child. She was my sister’s best friend’s mom, and lived near the...
History & Tradition

The restaurant that lit up Oak Bluffs

Geoff Currier -
It was early June 1987, the day of the much-heralded opening of the Oyster Bar (an American Bistro) in Oak Bluffs, Raymond and Jaime...
History & Tradition

Hanging at Helios

Geoff Currier -
It was January in 1976, the coldest day of the year, and Doug Thatcher was just glad that he was inside where it was...
History & Tradition

Recipe with a history: Avgolemono Soup

Alisun Armstrong -
It was December 1947. World War II had ended, but the Greek Civil War was just hitting its stride. Communists rebelling against the reign...
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