martha's vineyard (mass.)

Molly Bell Redwine, shattered when her husband deserts her, her mother dies, and her grown children leave to make their own lives, seeks refuge with friends in Martha's Vineyard where she decides to stay and try to come to grips with her changing identity.

Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie.

Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard.

Adopted as a baby, lonely eighteen-year-old Hazel Snow always yearned to know her origins, and with the help of a magical seamstress, Hazel wishes her way into an alternate life on Martha's Vineyard with the mother she never knew.

Ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, enjoying a Vineyard summer with his wife and children, falls under suspicion when rabid environmentalist Henry Highsmith--a man J.W. has clashed with in the past--is found murdered in a golf course sandtrap, and an SUV matching the description of Jackson's vehicle runs Highsmith's bicyclist wife off the road.

Ten-year-old Conor, who has cerebral palsy, spends a summer vacation with his family on Martha's Vineyard in this photographic essay.