Celebrating the HolidaysVineyard Visitor - 11 ocals share what they buy for their off-Island relatives, what they want themselves, on Martha’s Vineyard and what they think is the best thing in their store a holiday shopper should buy. What are some of your favorite Vineyard treats to give or receive? Everything you need for the holi - Lday season, you can find on The Vineyard. Shops offer an intimate r experience that is as much about My favorite “stocking stuffer” is now the honey from the Martha’s Vineyard socializing as it is about shopping. Honey Company. OMG!!! The lavender, Here, the holidays have the spirit of and the rose. You can get it at Cronig’s. community, and the look of a sea - It’s unbelievable! Just now I was thinking sonal card, street scenes with smiling of what to bring to friends we’re visiting VINEYARDVISITOR people greeting each other, bazaars soon, and I thought: the honey! Both and festivals where the tables are kinds. cronigsmarket.com. 12 - Vineyard Visitor Vineyard Visitor - 13 laden with homemade treats and -Nancy Slonim Aronie, author and owner of Writing from hand-crafted wares, sparkling lights, the Heart Workshops, Chilmark Making island memories since 1966 and seasonal music. ’Tis the season to be merry. WEST MAP KEY CHOP

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2 7. Child Farm East – 7.5 acres ARTISTS & ENJOY @M V @M V Square Field – 87.1 acres 2. Owen Park Beach 10am–4pm Squibnocket 10. Katama or South Beach 19. Squibnocket LOCAL FOOD Artisans Artisans 28. Manaquayak Preserve – 11.1 acres Point 11. Norton Point Beach GRANGE HALL West Tisbury 29. John Presbury Norton Farm – 118 acres OAK BLUFFS AQUINNAH free parking 30. Tisbury Great Pond Beach – 3.8 acres Scale in Miles (Approx.) 3. Eastville Point Beach WEST TISBURY 20. Lobsterville Beach vineyardartisans.com 18 0 2 4 6 8 4. Oak Bluffs Town Beach 12. Long Point Beach 21. West Basin Tisbury 22. Moshup Beach 5. Joseph A. Sylvia 13. Uncle Seth’s Pond 31. Chicama Vineyard – 21.2 acres State Beach 23. Philbin Beach 32. Thimble Farm – 35.2 acres 14. Lambert’s Cove Beach 33. Tisbury Meadow Preserve – 83.3 acres 34. Ripley’s Field Preserve – 77.1 acres Continued from page 11 35. Bare Hill Preserve – 2.7 acres Vineyard Visitor 36. Hillmans Point Preserve – 2.2 acres - 19 3 7. Wilfrid’s Pond Preserve – 5.2 acres S heriff’s Meadow s T he Trustees of u Foundation s Reservations 38. Ramble Trail Preserve – 7.3 acres Vineyard Visitor - 17 What’s on your wishlist? 39. Little Duarte’s Pond Preserve – 6.6 acres Chilmark Chilmark 40. Sailors Burying Ground – 1 acre I’d love another HydroFlask water bottle from the Green 62. Middle Road Sanctuary – 110 acres 79. – 211 acres Room – it keeps water from freezing on winter hikes or 63. Roth Woodlands – 26 acres Oak Bluffs 64. Brookside Ridge Preserve – 43 acres West Tisbury 41. Weahtaqua Springs Preserve – 35.3 acres 65. Quansoo Farm – 146 acres getting too hot on 80. Long Point Wildlife Refuge – 632 acres 42. Quays Corner – 0.6 acres sunny beach days. 43. Trade Wind Fields Preserve – 71.8 acres West Tisbury If anyone felt like 44. Farm Pond Preserve – 27.2 acres Edgartown dropping a couple 66. Cedar Tree Neck Sanctuary – 360 acres grand on me, I 45. Featherstone Farm – 18 acres 81. Norton Point Beach – 254 acres 67. Nat’s Farm Meadow– 56 acres wouldn’t mind a stand 46. Wapatequa Woods Preserve 68. Goethals Family Trail up paddle board either. – 107.9 acres – 9.5 acres (off-season). Chappaquiddick Vineyardsurf.com. 4 7. Pecoy Point Preserve – 17 acres 82. Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge – 516 acres As a Vineyarder in temporary exile in Los Angeles I - Kelsey Perrett, 48. Southern Woodlands Reservation Tisbury 83. – 14 acres MVTimes Calendar and digital media want Chilmark Chocolates, Alison Shaw prints, anything – 234 acres made by Beldan Radcliffe (not that anyone buying me 84. Wasque – 200 acres associate, Edgartown 69. West Chop Woods – 90 acres presents can afford that), and a subscription to The Edgartown 70. Brightwood Park – 8.8 acres THE Martha’s Vineyard Times. Alisonshaw.com. MVTimes.com. 49. Pennywise Preserve – 118.7 acres 71. Phillips Preserve – 68.8 acres ineyard Open Land V POLLY HILL Perfect MV gift for the Holidays? There are so many! From my store I would suggest a leather 50. Ben Toms Preserve – 16 acres Foundation -Nicole Galland, ARBORETUM passport holder with the name of your favorite Island town embossed on it (for the traveler in one’s author, “Godiva,” Los Angeles. 51. Sweetened Water Preserve – 11.4 acres Edgartown Tisbury family), a jar of local M.V. honey, the book, “Potluck at Midnight Farm” (filled with great recipes by

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53. Muskoday Farm – 28 acres 73. Caroline Tuthill Preserve – 150 acres Farm beanie hat, suitable for men and women. We are also selling the wonderful Gay Head Lighthouse s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s 54. Norton Fields Preserve – 20.5 acres 74. Ox Pond Meadow – 5 acres s In addition to sharing the special benefits of a tee-shirts with all proceeds going to the committee to save the light. Suggestions from outside the store are numerous! Heart rocks (they are free) from your favorite beach. Yes you will need to get out 56. Edgartown Great Pond Beach – 7.4 acres 75. Little Beach – 20.1 acres T own Properties Polly Hill membership, you will be helping to preserve there and take a walk, so...a guide to hiking trails across the Island, gift certificates to your favorite 57. Morning Glory Farm – 26.4 acres 76. Huckleberry Barrens – 17 acres Edgartown this historic landscape and support our programs of plant store, restaurant, movie theater (support your local businesses) or Island charity (even better idea!). Chappaquiddick 86. Turkeyland Cove Park education, research, and conservation! Chappaquiddick 77. Hal and Olive Tilghman Trail and 58. Three Ponds Reservation – 312.4 acres Preserve – 1.85 acres M ass Audobon Society Grounds open every day from sunrise to sunset 59. North Neck Highlands Preserve 78. Packard Preserve – 6.7 acres -Tamara Weiss, Midnight Farm; midnightfarm.net. – 4.9 acres Edgartown $5 admission; free to members and children under 12 60. Poucha Pond Reservation – 154.7 acres 87. Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary – 350 acres 61. Chappy Point Beach – 2.9 acres Heather795 StateSmith’s Rd, West Tisbury • 508-693-9426 • pollyhillarboretum.orgPHOTO BY LYNN CHRISTOFFERS Continued on page 23

PHOTOS COURTESY OF HEATHER SMITH

sea glass scenes Heather Smith sells her sea glass scenes at Driftwood Jewelry on Circuit Ave in Oak For those hard-to-buy-for folks on your list. BY ANGELA PROUT Bluffs. She can create her own designs, or ones personalized for customers, such as a he time-honored tradition of comb - think it’s done, and then pull it apart and start bride and groom (top), a swan, or a mermaid. ing for beach glass on Martha’s again until I get it to my liking,” Heather said Vineyard doesn’t always yield a trea- of her creative process. Her win at the Ag Fair came as a result of sure. And if you’re lucky enough to - find it, then what? friendly feedback and some thoughtful revi Last year, artist and Island native sion. “I had a lighthouse done and was going to enter it in the fair. I had it all wrapped up THeather Smith was inspired to make unique, in bubble wrap, and pulled it out to show everyday scenes from her beach glass finds. one of my bosses. She made some helpful On a trip home from Hyannis, Heather no - critiques, and I said, ‘You know what, you ticed an American flag collage made from sea are right.’ Back to the drawing board I went, glass; it reminded her of her flag-loving best and it was totally worth it to rip it all apart, friend. When she saw the $175 price tag, she because I won a second-place ribbon at the thought, “I can make this myself.” - Heather started crafting several pieces as Agricultural Fair in the professional cat egory, which I was absolutely thrilled about!” holiday gifts, and now has an Ag Fair ribbon To create the final scenes, she glues the under her belt, as well as work available at - individual pieces onto vellum with E6000 LOVE Driftwood Jewelry and Martha’s Vineyard Sav glue, and showcases the simple arrangements ings Bank in Oak Bluffs, Shear Inspiration, and in a shadow box. “If the glass or stones are flat the Edgartown National Bank in Edgartown. MARTHA’S VINEYARD? On a table at home, she assembles flat stones enough, I use regular photo frames,” she said. Her scenes range in size from 3½ inches by 5 and shells, along with sea glass, and fiddles inches up to 8 inches by 10 inches.” with them until she gets the perfect picture. So where does she get her coveted raw “Sometimes I have as many as 15 different Islanders Read materials? Like any good keeper of secrets, scenes going on the table at once,” she told she’s not telling. “I would rather not disclose The Times. Those scenes include everything where I collect my glass. It is sort of like from a golfer on the green putting the ball to a a fisherman giving out his ‘spot.’” But the The MV Times, couple beside a campfire, another in a hot air lifelong sea glass collector assured us she balloon, and a bride and groom on their wed - sources all of her own pieces: “Nothing is ding day. The campfire scene, which is hang- bought or tumbled or shaped by me in any ing at Driftwood, is one of Heather’s favorites, way, strictly by nature,” she said. shouldn’t you? along with a swan made out of three large When she’s not collecting or assembling pieces of conch shell with white sea glass baby ive a merry gift card. her art, Heather works as a paralegal at Mc - swans. That one is still on her table at home. “I G Carron, Murphy & Vukota in Edgartown know it’s going to be very difficult to glue the and as a hostess at the Wharf Pub. While ‘beach grass,’ she says. The golfer came out of The Steamship offers gift cards in any she’s been collecting for years, the role of a request for a Father’s Day gift from someone artist is still new to her. “I disliked art in denomination over $5.00 – use for daRosa’s who had bought another of her pieces, and LOCAL HINT: elementary school, in Tisbury,” she said. “I SINCE 1935 she was immediately asked by someone else to ferry tickets, on-board refreshments, OAK BLUFFS just had no interest in it. I can’t even draw Pick one up for free at • 508.693.0110 make one for her boyfriend. or Steamship parking. Purchase STOREWIDE CHRISTMAS SALE Heather has created several custom-order stick people!” But her creative streak has the machine in front of the been exposed, and there’s no turning back. at our terminals, by phone at pieces, with specific direction from her MV Times building! From copiers to pencils “It is taking me some getting used to all the customers, along with personal ones she’s 30 Beach Road, VH 508-477-8600, or online at compliments I am receiving on my work, but CASH SALES O designed. She created a scene for a woman SteamshipAuthority.com. I absolutely love it, and am considering tak- 20% CASH DISCOUNT NLY who found her on Facebook and wanted on All Cash purchases of All Retail ing an art class or two (yes, me, the one who something to remember the Vineyard by, The Martha’s Vineyard Times Christmas Cards, Ribbon & Wrap, Frames, Cash Registers, items Laminators, not already Shredders, reduced. Fax Machines, Typewriters, disliked art very much in school!) as she prepared to sell her Island home after is the only Island newspaper Hand Held Calculators, Printers, Batteries, 2016 Dated Goods, Artist Supplies-Professional and Student, “My friends joke with me and say, ‘Heather, many years. “She had a ton of glass that she Crayola Products, School Supplies, Scrapbooks, Photo Albums, Stocking Stuffers, And More... where the heck did this come from? We had delivered weekly to every collected. I asked what she had seen of mine Check out our online store for some special Vineyard Vines gifts. no idea you were talented!’” Call 508-693-6110 for an off-Island Vineyard postal customer. that she liked, and she said, All of it, you PRINTING SPECIALS subscription to keep the Vineyard close all BUSINESS CARDS decide what to make. I trust you.” • MEMO PADS Contact Heather through her Facebook page, • STATIONERY PAPER SPECIALS “Sometimes I just ‘see’ something and put it year long, or read for free at mvtimes.com FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 THRU THURSDAY COPY DECEMBER PAPER 31, 2015 ONLY together fairly quickly. Other times it’s on my Heather’s Sea and Stone Designs, or email her • SCRATCH PADS table for a week, or I will glue something and at [email protected] for orders.

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