Priscilla Sims Brown, a seasonal Vineyard resident, is the chief executive officer of Amalgamated Bank, the largest union-owned bank in the country. She is one of few women of color leaders in the financial sector.

Something happened to Carly Simon the moment she stepped onstage at the Chilmark concert. The performance she worried so about was riveting; the crowds she expected to be rowdy welcomed her warmly.

Backstage, she had mingled among the carefully screened (and tagged) collection of people, accepting hugs of encouragement, words of support.

“There was so much paranoia before the event, about what might happen, what it might turn into that I was really quite scared,” she recalled some days later.

When Valci Carvalho was a teenager, newly moved to Martha’s Vineyard from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he took a job at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Twenty years later, he's running his own department there.

Bernard Chiu, investor, inventor and owner of the Harbor View Hotel, has spent many nights dreaming about dehumidifier technology.

While studying at Princeton University, Jay Lagemann squeezed in every art history class he could between his load of mathematics courses.

Oak Bluffs resident Charles (Adi) Uchendu was one of several Massachusetts firefighters who went to Quebec to help Canada with the out-of-control wildfires.

In her 30-year career, Jean Stone has written upwards of 24 novels, more than a third of which are set on the Vineyard. The reason, she said, goes back to the works of Agatha Christie.

Born a century ago on a very different Martha’s Vineyard and having served as a medic in Germany during World War II, Clifton Athearn is a living link to the past. He celebrates his 100th birthday on June 30.

Murdick's Fudge has been providing tourists and Vineyarders alike with its decadent confections for nearly five decades.

Edgartown resident Bruce Nevin has been researching the Achumawi language for decades in hopes of helping to preserve the embattled indigenous language.