The Vineyard Preservation Trust is currently spearheading the Grange Hall Project to repair the building, which is in need of a multi-million dollar facelift.

On July 4 at the Tabernacle, I joined two dozen neighbors in reading Frederick Douglass’ speech, What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July, which he delivered on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, N.Y.

Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.

From the July 14, 1959 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Mainland newspapers glibly spoke of “baby hurricanes” but old-timers of the Vineyard would have called Friday night’s storm, or rather, that of early Saturday morning, “a williwaw.”

Late last month, after eight months of construction to replace the roof, the public was welcomed back to the pews and stained glass windows of the wrought-iron venue, just in time for Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s graduation.

Alison Shaw stands in the fog beneath the Oak Bluffs fishing pier. Her camera is positioned on a tripod as she looks through the lens at the early morning waves meeting the shoreline.

We’re happy to report that Baby Cakes, the two-year-old, medium-hair, female tabby cat’s adoption has been finalized. Good luck to you in your new family.

What is a “weak freak”? Sounds like someone you wouldn’t want to hang with.

The popular Cottagers Annual House Tour, which had taken a sabbatical due to the pandemic, is back and enchanting as ever. This year’s event takes place on Thursday, July 18 (rain or shine) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tomorrow night's first quarter moon appears in the zodiacal constellation Virgo, close to the right star Spica. Spica is one of the brightest stars of late spring and early summer. Use the moon to much valued celestial object. Spica is so large compared to our sun and voluminous too. The star is really two stars, one seven times bigger than our sun and the other is four times.

Their brilliance, hard to imagine, is 12,000 times brighter than our sun. The star is 250 light years away, one of the farthest bright stars in our sky.