While winter winds still whip across the fields, the Vineyard’s high school athletes are braving the elements and taking on the challenge of spring sports in not-so-springlike weather.
With a few weeks of practice under their wings, the competition began last week.
Arrowhead Farm on Indian Hill in West Tisbury was purchased by the land bank, with a plan to preserve the iconic property as a working farm in perpetuity.
The rhythms in the Island community echo the new melody in the natural world around us.
Familiar places become wondrously new in the Island light of October.
October on the Island is autumn through and through, and here, on the far shore of another summer, October unfolds in its own sweet time.
There was a fair amount of grumbling this week as fishermen battled riled up seas and lots of seaweed left over from the holiday weekend wind.
End of the day in Aquinnah and the waves sparkle, while Moshup Beach reflects the colors of the sunset in its clay cliffs.
Our perspective on Columbus may have changed, but our conviction has only grown stronger that, at this point in the Vineyard year, we definitely are ready for a holiday.
The talk of the Martha's Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby in the third week of the tournament has been the high winds and cooling temperatures.
After presiding over the historic wooden octagon for more than 95 years, the Union Chapel's 1924 organ has been fully restored.
Martha’s Vineyard towns are seeing a boom in residential construction projects, as building demands soar both up-Island and down.
Under picture perfect blue skies the Edgartown waterfront and harbor waters were buzzing with activity.
The Island of Martha's Vineyard is just as beautiful from the air as it is by land or by sea.
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.
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.
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.
Schools on the Island continue to phase back into the classroom over the course of the fall.
