Vineyard schools closed their lockers for the year today. In West Tisbury, teachers brought out musical instruments to sing goodbye as the school buses pulled away for the final time this school year. There were extra hugs goodbye in Edgartown as principal John Stevens retires. Bring on the popsicles, baseball games, and summer reading!
Photography
Albert O. Fischer, Jeanna Shepard, Ray Ewing
The fifth annual Car-B-Q Classic rolled into Vineyard Haven on Father's Day. The event began with a parade of classic cars, trucks, vans and a motorcycle or two from the Martha's Vineyard Family Campground and proceeded to the Martha's Vineyard Museum.
June 17, 2019
On Saturday at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury the third annual town picnic was a place to play egg toss, listen to music, eat, scratch a sheep behind the ears or just chill out.
June 16, 2019
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. So wrote the poet James Russell Lowell. And it's true, particularly on the Vineyard, when the peonies are in their prime and the scent of rosa rugosa is on the breeze.
June 16, 2019
The Taste of the Vineyard is a hot ticket start-of-season party where Island restaurants show off their culinary skills by offering samples of new or signature dishes for the benefit of the Vineyard Trust.
June 15, 2019
Shadows dapple up-Island roads. Leaves whisper in early breezes. Tree limbs reach across roads to tenderly touch. The air is fresh.
June 14, 2019
Island waters were ringed with 201 fly fishermen for the Rod and Gun Club's catch and release tournament this weekend.
June 11, 2019
Now migrating shorebirds return as the calendar turns its page to June. Birders have crowded Island ponds and beaches as ruddy turnstones, short-billed dowitchers, red knots, sandpipers, and dunlin return to their summer homes.
June 11, 2019
With words of wisdom, optimism, and remembrance, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2019 celebrated their graduation Sunday at the Tabernacle.
June 10, 2019
The sun shone on Saturday at the Grange Hall for the opening of the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market, and customers wandered in search of Island-grown asparagus, greens, June flowers and fresh-baked goods.
June 10, 2019
This year more than $2.2 million awards were given out during the class night ceremony at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs.
June 10, 2019
On the Vineyard, June does not so much embody summer as it does our transition into that exciting season, and of all the transitions the Island seasons bring, this is the most challenging.
June 9, 2019
At Allen Farm barn in Chilmark, 76 heavy-fleeced Corriedales received their annual shearing.
June 8, 2019
Each year Martha's Vineyard Magazine asks its readers to vote for the best and brightest in local food, shopping, entertainment, outdoor adventures, and more. The results are in, and last night awards were handed out at Farm Neck to enthusiastic partygoers.
June 7, 2019
There is something timeless – and therefore reassuring – in a Vineyard beach as the air warms again and invites return to the ocean's edge.
June 5, 2019
The Sharks are back. The Vineyard's summer baseball league opens up at home against the Valley Bluesox on Wednesday, June 5 at the Shark Tank.
June 4, 2019
Len Butler, Richard Skidmore and International Chimney have undertaken dramatic restorations to the 170-year-old Gay Head Lighthouse that would not have been possible without their foresight five years ago.
June 4, 2019