Vineyard Stories, Martha's Vineyard

Read Full Article	CK Wolfson, November 8, 2007 The Martha's Vineyard Times A Martha's Vineyard Times review of "Thirty Dirty Sailors" says: "This engaging children's book seduces its audience of two to eight year olds by virtue of its slick design, and Susan Convery Foltz's glossy, historically accurate watercolor illustrations."
	November/December 2007 Cape Cod Times The Cape Cod Times lists "Thirty Dirty Sailors and the Little Girl Who Went A-Whaling" among notable new children's books
	Holiday Gift Guide, November, 2007 Martha's Vineyard Times The Martha's Vineyard Times, in it's holiday gift section, lists four Vineyard Stories books among its recommendations: "Delish", by Phil and Shirley Craig; "Double Murder on Martha's Vineyard," by Cynthia Riggs; "Behind the Times on Purpose: The Charlotte Inn," with photos by Nina Bramhall; and "Thirty Dirty Sailors," which the Times calls "a charming children's book...a fanciful take on a true story about a real Vineyard girl and a real voyage on her father's whaling ship almost 150 years ago...Magic."
	Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007 The Boston Globe says Vineyard bookstore owner Jon Nelson (at the Bunch of Grapes) mentions two Vineyard Stories books as "home-grown favorites" of readers this summer: "Double Murder on Martha's Vineyard" by Cynthia Riggs, and "Delish!" by Phil and Shirley Craig. The recipes come from Phil's mystery books over the years, in which the leading character, says columnist Jan Gardner, "is J.W. Jackson, an island resident who solves murders in his spare time -- and loves to cook."
	Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 The New York Times mentions Vineyard Stories' book on the Charlotte Inn in an Escapes section article about B&Bs on the Vineyard. Says writer Perry Garfinkel: "The title of a book about the inn best sums up its ambience: 'Behind the Times on Purpose.'" Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007 The Cape Cod Times describes Vineyard Stories’ book on the Charlotte Inn as a chance to “peek behind the damask drapes to learn about the inn’s history.” The book was included in the newspaper’s summer roundup of new books for children and adults by Cape and Island writers. It particularly liked the section in the book called, “So You Want to Run an Inn?”
Read Full Article	Jan Pogue, July 2007 Martha's Vineyard Magazine The grounds of the Charlotte Inn are as much a part of the experience of staying there as are the riding boots, beautiful lamps, and fine art dominating every space of the indoors. Although the land the inn occupies is only one acre, the grounds have the fluid lines and spacious air of a large estate.
Read Full Article	CK Wolfson, June 7, 2007 The Martha’s Vineyard Times A handshake deal in the back yard puts two out of print books by well-known Vineyard mystery writer Cynthia Riggs into this double volume. The review discusses both the publishing work being done by Vineyard Stories and critiques the two books in the double volume, Deadly Nightshade and The Cranely Orchid Murders.
Read Full Article	Mike Seccombe, Cover Feature Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, Home & Garden edition Painter Allen Whiting – whose art so defines the Vineyard that he has become collected by people all over the country – describes the decision to publish his first retrospective, Allen Whiting: A Painter at Sixty, and why he chose Vineyard Stories to do it. Illustrated with both is own work and photographs by Alison Shaw.
Read Full Article	Mary-Jean Miner, December 7, 2006 The Martha’s Vineyard Times A review for the cookbook “Delish!,” written by Martha’s Vineyard author Philip Craig and his wife, Shirley Craig, declares that the recipes “appeal to (a) sense of delight and joy in food preparation and consumption.” Includes a picture of Phil and Shirley with the cookbook.
Read Full Article	Debra Lawless, November 16, 2006 The Cape Cod Chronicle Lawless declares “Delish!,” a cookbook written by author Philip Craig and his wife, Shirley Craig, to be the kind of cookbook that makes “you want to head into the kitchen and get to work.” The article includes quotations from an interview with Jan Pogue, president of Vineyard Stories, who published the book.
Read Full Article	Holly Nadler, October 13, 2006, The Vineyard Gazette Phil and Shirley Craig recount the love affair that began at a fencing match in Boston and developed into a forty-nine year marriage in which Phil produced twenty mystery novels featuring a protagonist who cooked the same recipes Phil and Shirley were learning to cook in their own kitchen. That collaboration led to their co-authorship of the cookbook called Delish!
Read Full Article	CatherineWalthers, Sept/Oct 2006 Martha’s Vineyard Magazine It may seem a little unusual for a mystery-series writer to turn out a cookbook, but to fans of Philip R. Craig’s Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries, it makes perfect sense. This first editorial piece on Craig’s new book includes full page images and recipes from the book.
Read Full Article	Robert Hayden, December 8, 2005 The Martha’s Vineyard Times Hayden, a historian, educator and author, calls By Gertrude Wilson an opportunity to “talk about and figure out our nation’s current race relations status.” The review describes in great detail, and with family interviews, how Justine Priestley, a wealthy white woman, came to write on the nation’s largest black newspaper amid the turbulence of the 1960s Civil Rights era.
Read Full Article	Holly Nadler, December 6, 2005 The Vineyard Gazette A look at the works of Justine Priestley, a Park Avenue matron who during the 1960s became a strongest, whitest voice on the largest black newspaper in the country during the tumultuous Civil Rights era. Among the things Nadler describes is what she calls a “the ten-hankie portion of the book” on Priestley’s involvement with the Martin Luther King family immediately after his assassination.