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November 26, 2020
November brings cooler weather and the arrival of winter residents, especially waterfowl.
November 25, 2020
Photographer Bert Fischer wanders Chilmark, where ancient stone walls frame the roads, the fishing port of Menemsha keeps busy, and wide, grassy moors and farm fields run to the sea.
November 23, 2020
The limbs of trees are becoming bare, and views have opened out through woods that were impenetrable to the eye only a blink ago.
November 22, 2020
Now is the time for leisurely drives on roads where traffic is the exception, not the rule, down lanes that are deserted in the chill of deepening autumn.
November 15, 2020
Scallop season has begun, and on the Vineyard men and women turn to the ponds to gather their dinners or earn their living.
November 13, 2020
A crowd of about 30 veterans and onlookers gathered in Ocean Park Wednesday morning under gray skies and warm temperatures for a ceremony in honor of Veterans Day.
November 11, 2020
Saturday morning, Steve Handy revved up his backhoe and began digging a five-foot channel through the barrier beach that separates Edgartown Great Pond from the ocean.
November 9, 2020
After three days of uncertainty, the Vineyard celebrated Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
November 8, 2020
After a tumultuous week, it's time for a moment of zen.
November 8, 2020
American poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote: To-day, alike are great and small, The nameless and the known; My palace is the people's hall, The ballot-box, my throne! And we can't agree more this year.
November 3, 2020
Winter is just a promise, but it makes us rush to savor the last bits of autumn before the ground turns hard and the trees turn bare and the snow flies.
November 2, 2020
Now that November is here, everything is right here, right now, and in the quieter pace that comes to the Island in this twilight of the autumn season, we can find some portion of the peace that is evident in the natural world around us.
November 1, 2020
On All Hallow's Eve the Agricultural Society fairgrounds turned spooky on Saturday morning as the last farmers’ market of the season went out with ghosts and ghoulies shopping for Island produce.
October 31, 2020
Trick or treaters may not be roaming Island streets this year, but porches and Main streets are decked out for the holiday.
October 31, 2020
In October birds begin migrating; some are summer resident species leaving for winter homes, while others are migrating down the coast.
October 27, 2020