Passersby formed a small crowd at the corner of Oak Bluffs Avenue and Kennebec Avenue Tuesday morning to bear witness as an excavator demolished the Old Variety Store. The souvenir shop was built around 1870, and has been listed in the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) The building’s first documented owner, Charles S. Tallman, […]
After nearly a decade, Vineyard artist Margot Datz has completed her recreation of a 1843 trompe-l’œil mural at the Old Whaling Church. Translated from French as “deceiving the eye,” the trompe-l’œil is achieved using a specific art technique meant to harness realistic qualities within a kind of optical illusion. The mural, along with two others […]
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The Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the nation’s oldest platform carousel, is receiving restoration work to prepare for the next cavalry of summer riders it serves. According to the Vineyard Preservation Trust, which owns the Flying Horses, the carousel was constructed by Charles Dare of New York Carousel Manufacturing in 1876 and originally operated […]
Ethan Miller of Calgary, Canada, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. A part-time student at the University of Calgary, he was 22, and worked on-Island during the summer for Siew Ong. He leaves behind a large number of devoted family members. They include his mother, Kristin Miller von Ranson, who grew up spending summers […]