July is prime season for shorebirds and summer residents. It is also the season for baby birds, and adult birds are busy bringing food to their young. Southbound migrants are also starting to appear.
July is prime season for shorebirds and summer residents. It is also the season for baby birds, and adult birds are busy bringing food to their young. Southbound migrants are also starting to appear.
With a welcome at the airport fit for heroes, recovering wounded soldiers arrived on the Vineyard Monday .
Hunters and gatherers from around the Island met at the sixth annual Wild Food Challenge Sunday.
The Vineyard is at her best in October around Columbus Day and always the holiday brings the return of Island friends.
As the seasons shift one to the other, we celebrate the brief bright palette of leaves about to fall.
Last night Vineyarders kept their eyes to the sky to witness the lunar eclipse of the harvest full moon. After 10 p.m., when the moon moved into the umbra (the darkest part of the shadow) it turned a bright pumpkin orange.
The winds of fall kicked it up a notch this week, blasting faces along the shore and lifting kite boarders into the sky. The pendulum of the season is now in its fullest swing, robbing us of nearly twenty minutes of daylight in a single week.
The Labor Day holiday already seems distant in this in between season, summer behind and autumn ahead. Even the Vineyard’s village streets look and sound different. Parking spaces are found once again and that hasn’t happened since Memorial Day in May.
The 70th annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby got underway in the wee hours of the morning on Sept. 13.
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) celebrated its 11th annual powwow this weekend at the Aquinnah circle. The powwow is a celebration of community, history, and tradition, as members of the Wampanoag tribe and guests celebrate with song, dance, and fellowship.
The sights and sounds of September measure the Island year better than any calendar. Look to the longer evening shadows under a sinking sun, to the bow of sunflowers and to the song of crickets and cicada.
Kite making, kite flying, model sailboat racing and frisbee games charmed young and old alike.
Sunday, Sept. 6, was quite a day for a small group of Island birders.
Nostalgia and admiration lit up faces admiring the cars at the Tisbury Firefighters Association Car Show.
Wasn't the Fourth of July just yesterday, or perhaps the day before? Can it already be time to be dreaming of that special fishing spot and a prize catch in the bass and bluefish derby?