Our Books in the News
"Planking Rebecca an excerpt"
June 2011
Yachting Magazine
The June, 2011 issue of Yachting Magazine has a lush excerpt of the book Schooner building a wooden boat on Martha's Vineyard- The planking of Rebecca.
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"Tile isle, Martha's Vineyard is rich in local tile artisans and unique designs"
Laurie Higgins, March 6, 2011
South Coast Today
Nine artisans working with tile for home decor seem like a lot for one
small island. But that's how many are featured in the photo-filled
coffee-table book "Martha's Vineyard Tile," recently published by
Vineyard Stories, and all of them create tiles for Martha's Vineyard
Tile Co. in Edgartown, which commissioned the book.
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"The Point : Morning Glory Farm"
Mindy Todd, November 12, 2010
The Point
Tom Dunlop and Alison Shaw talk about their book Morning Glory Farm: and the Family that Feeds an Island.
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"Edo Potter - Chappy personified"
Whit Griswold, June 10, 2010
Martha's Vineyard Times
Edo Potter first visited Chappaquiddick in the winter of 1932, when she was five years old. Her father, Charles Welch, had bought a hunting camp on Poucha Pond in 1928, when camps like it were sprinkled along the south shore of Martha's Vineyard — from Cape Poge Pond to Squibnocket Pond — for the use of well-heeled sportsmen from the city who came to shoot the waterfowl that filled the skies in those days. With the focus on gunning, the 100-acre "backland" farm and the
unheated, unplumbed farmhouse that came with the camp were
afterthoughts. In a few years, however, after live decoys were banned
and new bag limits were placed on duck and geese, Mr. Welch lost
interest in hunting and turned his attention to the farm.
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"Shorline"
Elaine Lembo, June 2010
Cruising World
In 2010, Gannon & Benjamin mark 30 years of distinctive boatbuilding, and Rebecca begins her 10th year of stylishly carrying crew throughout the world's illustrious cruising grounds. Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard, chronicles the dramatic tale of how the fate of boat and yard became irrevocably intertwined.
For more about Rebecca and Gannon & Benjamin
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"A Pair of Wooden-Boat Celebrations"
May 10, 2010
Crusing World
On the island of Martha's Vineyard, three miles off the coast of
Massachusetts, it was the most festive launch in more than a generation:
the christening of Rebecca of
Vineyard Haven, a 60-foot, 76,000-pound schooner designed and built,
plank on frame, at the Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, one of the
leading traditional boatbuilding yards on the U.S. continent.
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"Morning Glory Farm, and the Family that Feeds an Island"
May 6, 2010
Loulies
Amidst now-bucolic fields on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s
Vineyard, the Athearn family grows over fifty acres of small fruits and
vegetables that supply their roadside farmstand from May through
December. Morning Glory Farm began in 1975 by Jim and Debbie Athearn
(who both grew up on the island) on what they describe as
“once-worthless scrub land” that Debbie’s father bought for $7 in 1943.
There they raised their three children who are an integral part of the
farm today.
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"Morning Glory Farm grows a best-in-the-country cookbook"
Laurie Higgins, April 21, 2010
Cape Cod Times
When Jim and Debbie Athearn first began farming
more than 30 years ago, they sold produce from their home garden out of
the back of Jim's pickup truck."We were
surprised our first summer in '79, when we made $10,000. We thought,
'wow,'" Jim says, and Debbie finishes, "People want vegetables."The next year the numbers doubled, and they've been growing ever since.
Owners of Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown, the Athearns now work about
150 acres that is a combination of land they own, co-own or lease. They
have 57 acres of vegetables and 29 acres of pasture for the beef cows,
pigs and chickens they raise.
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"Best Maple Glazed Carrots Ever"
March 29, 2010
That's Not What The Recipe Says
This one is going to be short and sweet (pun intended). I recently
received a copy of "Morning Glory Farm and the family that feeds an
island," by Tom Dunlop, so I'm going to be testing some of the recipes
in upcoming days.
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"In Business : Jan Pogue: Success by the Book"
Jack Shea, February 4, 2010
The Martha's Vineyard Times
Jan Pogue has nurtured, then nudged, Vineyard Stories, her fledgling,
niche publishing company, out of its Edgartown nest over the past five
years, overcoming personal loss and an industry in disarray. This year
her company will publish five books, succeeding in a world in which
traditional publishers are wracked by dwindling profits, digital
publishing, the weight of backlisted titles, price resistance, and
author services and compensation.
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"Behind the Scenes With Jan Pogue, Publisher of the Recent National Hit 'Morning Glory Farm'"
Heather Fletcher, August 2009
Book Business
Small publishers who expand too quickly sometimes watch their
businesses deflate, says Jan Pogue, editor and publisher of Edgartown,
Mass.-based Vineyard Stories. That's why she's not going to let the
success of her latest book, "Morning Glory Farm: And the...
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"Vineyard Roots"
Jan Garner, June 21, 2009
Boston.com
"Morning Glory Farm is among the biggest and best-loved businesses on
Martha's Vineyard. On summer mornings, customers line up before the
farmstand opens. Corn is a big seller, as is the signature zucchini bread."
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"A picture-book ditty tells a true Vineyard tale"
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."
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"Martha's Vineyard Times"
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."
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"Cape Cod Times"
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
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"in the Boston Globe"
Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007
The Boston Globe
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."
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"Behind the TImes on Purpose"
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?”
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"Detail and Design, the gardens at the Charlotte Inn have an effortless feel"
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.
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"Making Book on Murders"
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.
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