Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rental: Oak Bluffs Oasis!

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Does it seem to you like I’m always saying, this is my favorite house? Well, I have only one excuse: we have so many gorgeous properties in our rental inventory! This amazing home in the Oak Bluffs neighborhood, Sengekontacket, is no exception. Sengekontacket is a quiet community with water access to Sengekontacket pond and the [...]

The FARM Institute: Corn Maze and Local Food

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Fall means back to school, Halloween, cool nights and, around here, the Corn Maze as one of the best family and kid activities around! If you’ve never been to a corn maze, it’s a very cool. Here’s how it works: Let the corn grow super tall – as in at least 6 or 7 feet. [...]

Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rental: Chappaquiddick Compound

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If you have a great big family or a huge group of friends, then this is the rental property for you. It sleeps 19! The main house has seven bedroom and two guest cottages have three additional bedrooms. Five bathrooms and, not one, but two outdoor showers round out the accommodations. This beautifully renovated Victorian [...]

Tivoli Day in Oak Bluffs

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Okay, so it’s not quite warm enough to hit the beach, but the fun on Martha’s Vineyard really doesn’t stop when the cool breezes start to blow. This Saturday, September 19, is Oak Bluff’s annual Tivoli Day Festival. Marking the end of the summer, this party is one big neighborhood celebration meets huge street fair. [...]

Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival 2009

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On Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 13, the 2009 Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival takes over Vineyard Haven! All four days will be filled with the best feature and short films from the biggie film festivals like Sundance, Berlin and Cannes – and new films that have yet to be discovered. This year’s festival films [...]

Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rental: Classic Edgartown Village

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This recently updated Craftsman style property sits right in the heart of Edgartown Village. It’s a classic home on a quiet street, with a phenomenal front porch – fully screened in so that you can watch life in Edgartown pass you by, joining in whenever you get the urge. And, you can stroll down to [...]

Waters of the World in Oak Bluffs

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So here we are on Martha’s Vineyard, surrounded by water and aquatic life…but it’s kind of hard to see! I mean crabs and clams and starfish abound, but what about all of the other life that hangs out in the depths below? Thankfully, the new aquarium in Oak Bluffs (right downtown!) lets us see everything. [...]

Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rental: Aquinnah Experience

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The first time I saw this house, I was struck by three things: the way the house blends in to the land around it, the windows and the deck! The colors of the exterior effortlessly to blend in with the sand, the stone wall and the surrounding trees. The windows reflect and become part of [...]

Obama arrives on Martha’s Vineyard

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Whether you like him or not, it’s pretty darn exciting to have the President of the United States staying just down the road this week. The ‘summer White House’ for 2009 is a private estate in Chilmark, Blue Heron Farm. Yesterday afternoon around 3:00 several helicopters, including Marine One, flew over the island and landed [...]

Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rental: Chilmark Contemporary on Abel’s Hill

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This extraordinary and contemporary home is situated on five private wooded acres on North Abel’s Hill adjoining Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation conservation land. Abel’s Hill was named for a member of the Wampanoag Tribe in the early 1700′s and I can only guess that the landscape is just as beautiful, lush and quiet as it was [...]