The Vineyard's many avian winter residents have arrived.
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Photography
Lanny McDowell
The year is in transition and the talk of the Island these days is of change, of the last two weeks of the derby, of the coming of warmer autumn days and the slow turning of foliage.
October 4, 2020
There are myriad reasons why so many fishermen and women enter the month-long derby, and few of those reasons have to do with the rich array of prizes.
October 3, 2020
The historic hangar at the Katama Airfield was demolished this week. Completed in 1945, the original hangar was built almost entirely with scrap materials from buildings destroyed in a hurricane the year before.
October 2, 2020
Schools on the Island continue to phase back into the classroom over the course of the fall.
September 29, 2020
Menemsha is a fishing paradise, known around the Island for its strong tides and water teeming with bonito and bluefish. For many a surfcaster and flyfisher there is no other place to be on a September night than the Menemsha jetties.
September 29, 2020
Up to 800 people are still being tested every week at the TestMV site — down only by a small amount from the approximately 1,000 people weekly during the summer.
September 28, 2020
At the Martha's Vineyard Glassworks gallery customers stream in to browse the shop’s selection of colorful bowls and vases, while glassmiths work away by the firey furnaces.
September 28, 2020
Around us, the natural world is responding to seasonal changes. Birds are migrating, poison ivy vines along woodland paths are turning crimson and caterpillars are on the move.
September 27, 2020
In this year of unrest, Vineyarders calling for justice in the Breonna Taylor case took their signs and voices to five Corners demanding action.
September 26, 2020
Steve Jones has spent his hours after work down by the drawbridge creating an art installation by balancing rocks into cairns alongside the Lagoon.
September 26, 2020
The year moves on and the season turns, heading out as if on a shifting tide.
September 24, 2020
Heading into the second week of the Derby, the word was all about the weather; good, bad, windy, and sunny. See highlights of derby history at the Vineyard Gazette's Time Machine.
September 24, 2020
Blustery winds, high waves and strong surf closed beaches and diverted ferries for the Vineyard as western remnants from Hurricane Teddy came ashore on Tuesday.
September 23, 2020
As the season turns from summer to fall, summer bird residents start to depart for their winter homes while others visit the Vineyard as they fly southward.
September 22, 2020
A peaceful demonstration was held outside the courthouse in Edgartown this weekend to protest racial injustice and the incarceration of minorities.
September 21, 2020
Now the year moves on and there is no lovelier time on the Vineyard than that moment of seasonal change from summer to autumn.
September 20, 2020