Growing up in New York city, Thelonious Sphere Monk 3rd did not think of his dad as a famous jazz pianist. He was just dad.

Juli Vanderhoop, Aquinnah select board member and owner of Orange Peel Bakery, moved back to the Island 20 years ago for the community, she told a group of 30 people Friday at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

Armed with marketing experience, seven years cultivating a community at the Oak Bluffs Library and a lifelong connection to the Vineyard, Carolina Cooney is ready to tackle her next role.

Ben Robinson was recently short-listed for the international Island Innovator Award, co-sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative.

India Rose spent many recent summers off-Island shuffling her son Kai to and from football camps. Between his equipment and her belongings, her hands were always full.

When Brook Katzen moved to the Vineyard two years ago, it was not with the specific intention to buy a miniature golf course, a year-round restaurant, a taco truck, a retail building, an ice cream chain, and now a gourmet market.

As he takes the reins of the Island tick-borne illness prevention program, Patrick Roden-Reynolds aims to build on the work of his predecessor Dick Johnson.

Sofi Thanhauser's new book, Worn: A People’s History of Clothing, tracks the social history of five main fabrics — linen, cotton, silk, synthetics and wool.

Flags flew at half-staff this week as Menemsha businesses honored Everett Poole who died on Monday.

When Wayne Budd was growing up in Springfield his father wanted him to be a dentist. Instead he turned to the law for a career and became a trailblazer in his profession.