Get away with it!

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How do I love getting to thee Martha’s Vineyard? Let me count the ways… While photographing two of our houses in Vineyard Haven today I saw a huge Schooner passing by East Chop lighthouse and a little plane overhead and as usual, the Island Home plowing along. On such a pretty day it reminded me [...]

Vacation Style: How Social are you?

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Your Social Energy Consider the social network. It documents our lives, blasts us with updates and lets us know who our friends are; why not bring your social life into the vacation discussion. Your real social life, the one the dictionary calls the “interaction between the individual and the group”. In Thursday’s Vinyasa Yoga @MansionHouseMV [...]

Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rental: Charming Oak Bluffs Retreat

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This condo, located in the heart of Oak Bluffs ,is the perfect place to enjoy your Vineyard vacation. Offering 2 bedrooms with 2 baths this is the perfect retreat for a romantic getaway or a fun filled escape for your small family! You cannot beat the location!  The shops and  restaurants of down town Oak [...]

Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rental: Private in Oak Bluffs

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If there’s one question that I hear from every potential vacation house renter, it’s, “How far is it to the beach?” This Oak Bluffs, restored Victorian cottage makes my part in this conversation easy! The beach is 30 feet from the house, literally at the bottom of the stairs. And the beach is private! This [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Island of lights: Illumination on Martha’s Vineyard

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It’s only fitting that the Grand Illumination in Cottage City, Oak Bluffs lands just days before President Obama and his family arrive for their Martha’s Vineyard vacation. Over a century ago, this wonderful tradition was created to welcome the Governor of Massachusetts to the island. This Wednesday night, August 19, 2009, as the sun sets [...]

Musical Mondays at Featherstone, Oak Bluffs

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“Featherstone, the island’s only year-round non-profit arts center, celebrates 13 very fruitful years of bringing art, in a myriad of forms, to island audiences and participants. With gallery shows, workshops, art camps, evenings of music and film, and fundraising events, Featherstone has been the living beating heart of the Vineyard art scene for over a [...]

Stairway to Heaven: Oak Bluffs vacation rental

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When I say Oak Bluffs to most people, they think of Circuit Ave, the Flying Horses, Cottage City and the old Tabernacle. It’s true – these are phenomenal highlights of OB, but there’s a softer side too…and clearly illuminated by this Oak Bluffs vacation rental. That stairway…I’m quite sure this picture says it all. This [...]