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As part of our organizational mission to disseminate
the Island's rich history, the Martha's Vineyard Museum produces a number of publications
to aid in this effort. Whether these publications are in the form of a book, a
newsletter, or our quarterly journal, all of these sponsored works draw upon our
rich archival and library sources.
The Dukes County Intelligencer is the Martha's Vineyard Museum's quarterly journal
of Island history. It has been published continuously since 1959. Hundreds of
articles, illustrations, photographs, and transcriptions of primary manuscripts
are within these journals. Drawing heavily from the archives of the MVM and other
maritime archives, the Intelligencer examines such topics as Island tourism, the
natural history of the Island, the social world on board a whaling ship, the Wampanoag
culture, European colonial settlement, and the role of the Island in American
history. MVM members receive a free subscription to the journal as part of their
membership benefits.
The MVM encourages the submission of
journal articles to the quarterly. Please direct all submissions and queries to
the journal's editor, Susan Wilson.
Susan Wilson, Editor
Martha's
Vineyard Museum
PO Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539 Telephone: 508-627-4441,
ext. 117
Fax: 508-627-4436
An index of The Dukes County Intelligencer is available for researchers. Simply
click onto the Intelligencer's
Index.
The MVM supports the publication of works relating
to Island history, individuals, and community life. In addition, the MVM also
supports the publishing of works relating to our maritime legacy. Below is a short
list of selected works that have by published by the Martha's Vineyard Museum.
For a more extensive list of published works, please refer to the MVM's Museum
Shop (link) page. Books and back issues of the Intelligencer can be purchased
from the Museum Shop.
Coming Summer 2006!
Since his retirement from journalism, Mr. Railton has for 27 years contributed
articles to and served as editor of the Martha's Vineyard Museum's quarterly journal
the Dukes County Intelligencer. The MVM is very proud to be able to publish his
recently completed ten-year project-the definitive history of the place he calls
"my favorite on the planet."
This
wonderful history, the first comprehensive history of the Island since Charles
E. Banks wrote The History of Martha's Vineyard in 1900, begins with the glaciers
and works its way through the Native American journey, the age of European exploration
and settlement, maritime history, the development of the Island as a world class
resort, and more. People, places and events-local and worldwide-are chronicled
here.
The History of Martha's Vineyard will be released in May 2006 by the
Martha's Vineyard Museum and Commonwealth Editions of Beverly, MA.
More Vineyard Voices - Words, Faces and Voices of Island People, published
by MVM, 2005. The much-anticipated second volume of portraits of Island people
and excerpts from oral history interviews conducted by Linsey Lee, curator of
the MVM's Oral History Center, is a companion volume to Vineyard Voices (1998).
Sea Struck is about the final decades of
American square-rigged sail, as recorded in firsthand accounts of voyages made
by three well-born young men from Massachusetts. Frank Besse and Carleton Allen
kept fascinating accounts while sailing as paying passengers aboard their ships.
Rodman Swift's journal, kept in secret aboard the steel four-masted bark Astral,
relates the reality of a prolonged and difficult voyage from Philadelphia to Japan
and finally to San Francisco. Published by the MVM and Tilbury House, 2004.
Across a career that
spanned more than fifty years, Stanley Murphy painted Martha's Vineyard with the
exacting eye of a seasoned craftsman and the magical soul of a poet: its fishermen
and selectmen and farmers and tribal elders; its seas and stones and fields and
flowers; its fishes and cows and dogs.
The Messenger, the newsletter of the Martha's Vineyard
Museum, is an article-based publication, appearing in May and in November, that
chronicles activities, profiles special people, and gives our executive director
the opportunity to communicate with our membership. Our spring issue highlights
the summer events, and our fall issue reviews the busy summer. In each issue we
strive to bring the mission of the Museum into focus by reporting on our education,
or exhibits, and our outreach.
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