This past February, the two married, and this June, they welcomed a baby boy, River Russell Deary. And guess where the baby spent his first summer? Right - Martha's Vineyard. "It's the coolest thing that Shane grew up there," Russell says from her New York home. "Because this is now going to be our place to go every year with our family, where we'll bring our kids and watch them grow up with all our other friends who grew up on the island. It's going to be so cool to watch all the kids grow up together."
So soon enough, River will know all his mom's favorite island spots. For those of us who won't be at Russell's family barbecues, she shares these things she loves about Martha's Vineyard.

First things first: You've got to get there. Here's how Russell says she reaches the island. One of the big experiences of traveling to Martha's Vineyard is taking the ferryboat over. It's about a 45-minute ferryboat [ride] to Martha's Vineyard. That is an experience - watching the seagulls as you are pulling farther out into the ocean and watching all the big houses as you come up to shore. It's just the coolest little quaint fishing village - wild, beautiful, everything. It's just perfect.

Martha's Vineyard is an island that is home to several individual towns. Russell says she likes Up-Island. Shane's parents live in what, on the island, they call Up-Island, in a town called West Tisbury. West Tisbury is a little more wild than the other towns on the ­island. It's in the trees. I actually love Up-Island. It's a little bit more untouched.