Vineyard schools closed their lockers for the year today. In West Tisbury, teachers brought out musical instruments to sing goodbye as the school buses pulled away for the final time this school year. There were extra hugs goodbye in Edgartown as principal John Stevens retires. Bring on the popsicles, baseball games, and summer reading!
Photography
Albert O. Fischer, Jeanna Shepard, Ray Ewing
There is a better way to look at this new season. The sun in winter will now turn back toward the Northern Hemisphere, toward the Vineyard.
January 6, 2019
On Tuesday morning at the first tick past midnight, a new year begins. Champagne corks will pop in households around the Island, and earlier on Monday Vineyarders will bid adieu to 2018.
December 30, 2018
Among the Islanders who died in 2018 was Ed Jerome former Edgartown principal and longtime leader of the Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.
December 27, 2018
Martha’s Vineyard, it is fair to say, could also be dubbed Artful Island.
December 27, 2018
Think of winter not as a time of darkness but as a time of quiet pleasures. There will be snow and ice and bitter cold, to be sure, but there also will be days of crystalline sunshine and walks without another human soul in sight and long views through tree branches bare of leaves.
December 27, 2018
Winter avian residents arrive and the occasional rare birds move through the Island in December, as winter begins.
December 27, 2018
The story of a year on the Island as told through pictures of people and events — from ordinary to extraordinary.
December 27, 2018
The Island is full of bright light and spirit, and everywhere on the Vineyard the message is the same. The holiday season of Christmas on the Vineyard is in full swing. Travel the brightly decorated main streets of our villages and you will find the rhythm of Island life changing.
December 20, 2018
Natural highlights for the year that was included a pod of about 150 dolphins frolicking not far off Menemsha.
December 19, 2018
Winter weather is upon us, make no mistake, and the season is certain to remind us of its potency. The mornings have been crisp with frost on the ground, while overhead the stars have been brilliant at night. On village streets the holiday lights are cheerfully inviting.
December 16, 2018
The Island’s premier high school choral group, the Minnesingers, performed a concert of seasonal favorites at the Old Whaling Church during the weekend's Christmas in Edgartown festivities.
December 10, 2018
The songs and the lights of Christmas break into the silence and darkness of December, this month of the long nights, spreading their warmth of hope and cheer.
December 9, 2018
Main street Edgartown was the place to be Saturday for the parade and holiday festivities that merrily rolled through town spreading joy to everyone.
December 8, 2018
This weekend Edgartown rolls out the holiday carpet for Christmas in Edgartown.
December 4, 2018
The Vineyard becomes a place of light in this season and offers opportunity to greet friends under the cheery lights of Main street in Vineyard Haven.
December 3, 2018
The Island is full of bright light and spirit, and everywhere on the Vineyard the message is the same. The holiday season of Christmas on the Vineyard begins. Travel the brightly decorated main streets of our villages and you will find the rhythm of Island life changing.
December 2, 2018