Winter avian residents arrive and the occasional rare birds move through the Island in December, as winter begins.
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Photography
May 19, 2016
Martha's Vineyard students and their families gathered at Ernie Boch Jr.'s Katama house for the traditional pre-prom pictures.
May 15, 2016
For the past 170 years, the Vineyard Gazette has changed along with the Island, the paper’s publishers, and the newspaper industry.
May 13, 2016
The poet Amy Lowell loved to write about the gardens of spring and the flowering of this season that is our prelude to the clatter and clamor of summer. But Lowell somehow missed the point when she wrote her fondly remembered poem Lilacs.
May 12, 2016
Island naturalist Gus Ben David's menagerie expanded a bit this week with the addition of a young eastern screech-owl.
May 10, 2016
The 42nd kids' trout tournament took place under gray skies, but hot dogs for breakfast and fishing fever kept spirits high.
May 7, 2016
May 4, 2016
The grounds of the old Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven will one day be home to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
May 2, 2016
Lobsterville Beach is ready for summer, with newly replenished sand and natural beach grass to keep it in place.
May 2, 2016
Welcome, May — how very welcome this new month is. The new green buds are bursting at its arrival; the birds sing earlier each morning as they gather materials for their nests.
April 29, 2016
Dan Sternbach's project to grow Red Fife wheat is one small part of a quiet revolution in sustainable farming on Martha's Vineyard.
April 28, 2016
Now the pace of Island life will quicken in the rush toward summer.
April 24, 2016
Ayuthia, an 80-year-old traditional wooden sailing vessel, made the first official passage through the brand new Lagoon Pond drawbridge Saturday morning.
April 23, 2016
Variations in temperature can affect the timing of flowering and leaf-out around the Island.
April 15, 2016