Martha Vinyard vintage 1988

We first visited the Vineyard in the Summers of '87 and '88. Lizzie and I were young parents. Mark and Laura were in love that first summer of '87 and were married by the next. Mark, one of my college roommates, and fellow engineering student, had called a few months earlier to ask if we wanted to go in on a beach house. I'd never heard of Martha's Vineyard, but always trusted Mark to arrange a good time! We learned that getting to the Vineyard is a bit of hassle, but once there, everything seems far away. The house was on Tisbury Pond, a short boat trip to an isolated section of South Beach. I still remember the exhilaration that Mark (in photo), Laura, and I felt as we jumped off the dunes onto the deserted beach.

Back then, we were into biking, but Mark, ever the engineer, always seemed as interested in working on the bikes as he was in riding them.

Mark and Lizzie are also great friends. The three of us had already traveled to Vermont and Montreal. This was our first time traveling with Laura - but it would not be the last!

Back then, Julie was just an infant and Ed was a toddler. Now they are both in college. You can visit Ed's cartooning blog at http://edmoorman.blogspot.com/ Julie is following her passion for music, especially voice, while studying at Amherst.

Mark and Laura share a love of food and of entertaining. We had a memorable 4th of July party that summer. Mark and Laura's had offered an open invitation to their friends in Boston. Little did we know that news of the party spread around Cambridge like wildfire and soon we had over thirty people show up at the small house on the pond for a night of fun under the stars. Mark and Laura responded by pulling out all stops for a great evening.