Now - the ferry Islander left Martha’s Vineyard for the last time in March of 2007 and has reappeared in New York Harbor.  According to an article in the New York Times by the summer of 2009 the Islander will have been refurbished and doing an 800 yard run between Governor’s Island and Lower Manhattan.  The port of “Woods Hole” will be painted out and replaced with ”Governor’s Island”…  there are no plans to change her name.  In the hearts of all who’ve known her she’ll always be and will remain … The Islander. 

Then -  In February of 1950 the Islander began plying the waters between Martha’s Vineyard and Woods Hole… this relationship would continue for 57 years.