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The Ponds of Martha's Vineyard: Great Ponds, the Cut, the Blooms and Where to Meet Them (2026)

The Ponds of Martha's Vineyard: Great Ponds, the Cut, the Blooms and Where to Meet Them (2026)

Martha's Vineyard's ponds explained: the great ponds sealed behind the south-shore beach and cut open to the sea by hand, the salt ponds with tides and scallops, the freshwater kettle ponds, why cyanobacteria blooms turn some of them green in August and what MV Cyano's colors mean, the nitrogen under the houses, and where a visitor can swim, paddle and watch the cut.

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Hurricane Bob on Martha's Vineyard: 35 Years Since the Storm of 1991

Hurricane Bob on Martha's Vineyard: 35 Years Since the Storm of 1991

On August 19, 1991, Hurricane Bob hit Martha's Vineyard at the height of the season: 98 mph winds, 84 boats wrecked in Edgartown Harbor alone, a sloop in the Harborside Inn pool, and a false autumn by Labor Day. The story of the storm, told through an original Vineyard Gazette storm edition we found in an island thrift shop.

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