RISE Vineyard Performing Arts presents their 17th annual recital on Sunday, June 2.

John Muir had a fondness for ferns. He encouraged this activity: “Spread a fern-frond over a man’s head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.”

June is LGBTQ+ pride month, an annual series of events that continue to grow each year on the Island, with the pride parade as the annual centerpiece. This year’s parade takes place June 8, beginning at the Island Queen Dock.

Like most parents, we thought this day might never come. On June 9 our youngest child will graduate from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

Sixty years ago Edgartown had its Cleaveland Town in the south end and Jernegan Town in the west end, probably so named from the fact that various dwelling houses in the two sections were occupied by families with those well known Vineyard names.

This year’s Cross-Island hike takes place Saturday, June 1, beginning at 8 a.m. at Hillman’s Point at Lake Tashmoo. The full trek is just over 19 miles long, ending at the Chilmark Pond Preserve.

I want to give a salute and huge shout out to Mr. James Hagerty (Lieut. Col.), the town administrator for the town of Edgartown.

Jonah Maidoff will say goodbye to the classroom and school he has called home for nearly three decades at the end of this school year.

I joined a day trip run by the West Tisbury Congregational church to visit Penikese Island, an ancestral hunting land of the Wampanoag, 45 minutes by boat off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

The Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School graduation takes place Sunday, June 2 on the school grounds in West Tisbury, beginning at 1:30 p.m.