Every summer, ‘Cosmopolitan’ Beauty Director Julee Wilson spends two weeks in August at her family home in Martha’s Vineyard. She shares her insider ferry tips, the Facebook group with the best rental houses, and doughnuts worth waiting in line for.
The Martha s Vineyard Times
This Was Then: Pig tales
A short history of Vineyard swine.
Squibnocket, early 20th century, Hornblower estate. Courtesy Chris Baer
1860 illustration of Vineyard pigs by Porte Crayon (aka David Hunter Strother), as published in Harper s New Monthly Magazine, to illustrate the Revolutionary story of “Josey’s Pig”. Courtesy Chris Baer
Helen Mayhew Anderson’s tasty(?) pig-based recipe, as it appeared in the 1924 “Island Cook Book”. (Please tell us how it comes out!) Courtesy Chris Baer
Martha’s Vineyard is not known for its swine, but hogs have historically been a critically important Island livestock; only sheep and cattle were more numerous in centuries past.
To the Editor: I’m writing in opposition to article 6 on the West Tisbury town warrant, which would authorize the development of an affordable housing project on town-owned land on the corner of State Road and Lambert’s Cove Road. This parcel lies in the State Road corridor that connects our down-Island towns to up-Island. For […]