First NHL Goal

Alexis Lafreniere, the NHL's #1 draft pick last October, scored his first NHL goal last night, a decisive winning goal, helping the New York Rangers defeat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 in overtime. 

Captain Quint Action Figure

Coming in March, the Captain Quint action figure from the 1975 movie Jaws, filmed on Martha's Vineyard.

A Weight Lifted

New Yorker cartoonist and editorialist Barry Blitt chronicled Trump's presidency brilliantly. From the Belly Flop cover during the 2015 primaries to this week's cover – A Weight Lifted – the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blitt bookended its ignoble beginning and end.

Martha's Vineyard ~ Vacation Movies from the 1940s

This week's Vineyard Gazette features an article by Louisa Hufstader – The Way We Were: Wearing Ties to the Beach – about movies shot by Charles M. James during summer vacations on the island in the early 1940s.

The remarkable 80-year-old, pre-war color footage, edited and digitized by the Martha's Vineyard Museum, and narrated by its research librarian Bow Van Riper, provides glimpses of a bygone era as the island and Islanders were shifting from "farm country to summer resort and commercial fishing to pleasure boating."

Socially Distanced Vacation

Harry Bliss's cartoon, Many Desert Islands, published January 15, 2017, was ahead of its time.

Dog Years

Community ~ Now More than Ever

 The Katonah Chalker continues to brighten our days.

2021's New Year Bounce

Martha's Vineyard & The Simpsons

It took 689 episodes for Martha's Vineyard to get The Simpsons treatment last November 8. 

Season 32, Episode 5, titled The Seven Beer Itch, features the voice of Olivia Coleman as a British femme fatale who "like The Beatles and balmy weather, was too hot for England to handle." She leaves behind the men at The Brexiteering Swan pub for Springfield, the town that "put the sit in obesity." Meanwhile, Marge's Aunt Edith invites the Simpsons to vacation at her home on the Vineyard, located "south of Squibagansett, east of Codtucket, next to Little Crabkill Bog." Aunt Edith's invitation has just one condition: no Homer.

Lily, Olivia Coleman's character, arrives in Springfield and in short order has Moe and the Duff-swilling men at the bar swooning over her, save for Homer who misses Marge. The script has a few good Vineyard barbs, especially when the merchants in lockstep raise their prices in their shop windows the moment a ferry of tourists reaches shore. Surprisingly, the Kennedys are spared. Alan Dershowitz is not.