The annual Post Office Square tree lighting featured cocoa, carols, and Santa Claus.
The annual Post Office Square tree lighting featured cocoa, carols, and Santa Claus.
The annual Christmas lights display at Ocean Park ushers in the holiday season in Oak Bluffs
Thanksgiving marks the end of one season and the beginning of another, but this year there is a distinct sense of procrastination about it all. Suddenly we are in no real hurry for winter with its hard freeze and slate-colored sea roughed up by whitecaps.
The Vineyarders hosted the Nantucket Whalers at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School for the 38th annual Island Cup. The Vineyard's 14-year winning streak, bragging rights, and the silver Island Cup were on the line.
A few days before Thanksgiving Island gleaners harvested cranberries at the Vineyard Open Land Foundation bogs.
Our avian winter residents, especially waterfowl, are starting to arrive.
On Saturday over 200 people gathered in Waban Park for an event entitled We Stand Together: In Solidarity, Resistance and Resolve. The gathering included songs, speeches, quiet walking, candles and preached the gospel of inclusivity and hope.
Thanksgiving season stirs memories of bygone traditions.
Saturday evening a benefit concert at the Chilmark Community Center drew a crowd of 600 people who were entertained by performances by many of the Island’s perennial favorites, including Willy Mason and Marciana Jones, Jemimah James and Kate Taylor, the Black Brook Singers, and many others.
November's full moon, is the biggest and brightest moon to rise in almost 69 years.
Our next season stands waiting in the wings while the late autumn sun races through bare limbs.
Oak Bluffs voters enjoyed free coffee and in Edgartown ballots were cast in striped booths.
A common raven was spotted in early November on Martha's Vineyard, but despite the name the sighting is anything but common.
An early morning apricot sun climbs over the eastern edge of the Island.