Donnie Benefit and Greg Bettencourt lead dredging efforts in Edgartown Great Pond.
Donnie Benefit and Greg Bettencourt lead dredging efforts in Edgartown Great Pond.
Island students went back to school today and the rhythms of a new year could be seen all over the Vineyard as kids waited at the end of roads and driveways for school buses to arrive, and parents sat in drop-off lines at elementary schools.
The crowded Labor Day weekend — on the town and on the beach — brought a sense of normalcy to the Vineyard. Islanders and off-Islanders alike spent Friday through Monday enjoying what they could of it, soaking in the last gasps of a Vineyard summer.
The Agricultural Hall opened its doors and fairgrounds to both the West Tisbury Farmers' Market and Labor Day Artisans Festival on Saturday.
The traditional end of summer Herreshoff Cup Race included a twist this year, with the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club competing in the race for the first time and playing host.
Labor Day weekend sneaked up this year and caught the Island unawares.
How is it that August on the Vineyard can be so different from July? It’s all about location in the landscape of summer. July opens the season, and from its vantage point at the near shore of summer, the days seem to extend almost endlessly, with autumn somewhere over the horizon.
After Friday night's rains, Beach Road Weekend returned Saturday with concerts at Veterans Park.
Today marks the last weekend in August — one last trip to Larsen's Fish Market, another round of golf at Farm Neck, a box of Murdick's fudge to go, a last swim at South Beach.
On Friday night Veterans Park in Vineyard Haven was transformed from a quiet softball and soccer field to a full-fledged music festival.
August is a time for warm days and fledging birds. Feathered friends also start to disperse after breeding season, while southbound migrants pass through the Vineyard for a visit.
More than 100 supporters came out on August 23 to honor the memory of Tavaris and Tavaughn Bulgin.
During the dizzying peak of summer, when intersections are thick with cars, celebrity sightings keep Islanders buzzing, and long lines stretch from ice cream counters, post offices and ferry terminals, another line begins to form in West Tisbury on the grounds of the Agricultural Hall for the Mar
The rules are simple. You are given two throws with two skillets provided by the fair. You must throw each skillet as far as you can and as close to the line as possible.
As the days grow visibly shorter and the climactic events of summer rush past, our challenge is to slow down, to savor this fleeting season’s sweetness and try to make it last.
Eager onlookers started saving their spots in Ocean Park early Friday. And the annual Oak Bluffs fireworks show Friday night did not disappoint.
This old-fashioned country fair tells us the peak of summer is here and it also reminds everyone that the season’s rush is toward Labor Day and the autumn beyond. But for now the invitation is to the fair. We’ll see you there.