Photographer Bert Fischer wanders Chilmark, where ancient stone walls frame the roads, the fishing port of Menemsha keeps busy, and wide, grassy moors and farm fields run to the sea.
Photography
Albert O. Fischer
While we weren't looking, the trees have come into stronger leaf, although the laggard scrub oak still lacks its summer raiment.
June 25, 2020
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School class of 2020 will graduate July 26, at the Agricultural Society fairgrounds in West Tisbury. The diverse group of students are remembered at their school as thoughtful, hardworking, and eager to engage in the community around them.
June 24, 2020
West Tisbury held its annual town meeting Tuesday in the Tabernacle with a stripped-down warrant that included requests to restore bus service, repairs to the local dump and a series of articles related to affordable housing.
June 23, 2020
Held in the parking lot outside the town fire station with chairs set out at six-foot intervals on a foggy day, Aquinnah voters approved every article on the warrant in just over an hour.
June 23, 2020
West Tisbury students paraded by their teachers to commemorate the last day of school.
June 23, 2020
June has made it to our shores. Nesting season is well underway.
June 23, 2020
The Oak Bluffs Open Market is one part flea market and one part artisan fair, with a dash of farmers’ market.
June 23, 2020
In this pocket before summer really begins, some measure the advance of the season not by the blooming of buttercups but by the sudden absence of parking places downtown.
June 22, 2020
Hundreds of peaceful demonstrators marched from Vineyard Haven to Oak Bluffs as part of the Juneteenth racial justice march for equality.
June 19, 2020
Long lines, sunny skies and hand sanitizer greeted a steady stream of masked voters in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown on Thursday, as Islanders headed to the polls.
June 18, 2020
Oak Bluffs held their annual town meeting beneath the canopy of the Tabernacle, the meeting saw a strong turnout with 239 voters in a historic year.
June 18, 2020
Hundreds of peaceful demonstrators took to the streets in Oak Bluffs Sunday in a march against racism and police brutality.
June 14, 2020
It is early in June that we again become besotted with light, the longer into the evening the better.
June 14, 2020
Originally scheduled for March 31, the annual town meeting was postponed three times and took place outside, under a tent on the Tisbury School.
June 13, 2020
The Edgartown annual town meeting, delayed two months due to the pandemic, took place under a tent at the Edgartown School.
June 13, 2020
On Saturday morning at 9 a.m. the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market officially opened in its new location, moving from the Grange Hall to the Agricultural Society fairgrounds this summer.
June 13, 2020