Camp Jabberwocky began its 65th summer season as it always does, with songs, hugs and far-out outfits when campers arrived by ferry.

The Vineyard Independence Partnership brings together Islanders with disabilities, family members and friends for activities on the Island.

The Vineyard Gazette will donate $14,145 to Camp Jabberwocky, the Island’s groundbreaking sleepaway camp for people with disabilities, the result of a successful subscription campaign.

The unique Island camp for people with disabilities has been chosen as this year’s beneficiary of the Gazette’s annual holiday subscription promotion.

The lights were low, the music was funky and party hats were everywhere as Camp Jabberwocky marked its 65th anniversary in Boston last Thursday night.

Camp Jabberwocky is famous for taking a familiar story and zapping it to life. Mamma Mia! was no different.

Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank has donated $5,000 to Camp Jabberwocky, which serves children and adults with disabilities.

Last Saturday evening Camp Jabberwocky performed Back to the Future, a theatrical reinterpretation of the 1985 movie.

The Camp Jabberwocky stage was a small Amish town in Pennsylvania where Dr. Frankenstein set up a laboratory. Using high voltage electricity, he zapped his green creature, Derrick, to life.

Under the late afternoon sun, a group of smiling beachgoers, some from Camp Jabberwocky, others from Beacon Academy, ran into the ocean together.