The Island homelessness relief group Harbor Homes has begun a new summer outreach program that aims to offer food, medicine, counseling services and more to the Island’s high seasonal homeless population.

Call him resident dad. Phil Hughes, owner of Wheel Happy, is standing behind the counter of his Edgartown bike shop on recent afternoon, repairing an XC Cannondale mountain bike, spinning its wheels.

I am attuned to sound. I have been since I was a child and liked to capture the sounds, voices and happenings in my world on my red Take ‘n Tape Panasonic cassette recorder.

For the 20th consecutive year, Renaissance House will host a reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July on July 4. 

This summer, the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will be commemorating their centennial and honoring their founder, Agnes D. Meikleham.

Wendell Berry wrote: “If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”

they’d never been there in the summer before
when the white morning sky
burns the mist like snowy cinders

Anthony Holand wields a hammer in his Vineyard Haven studio as he works on a commemorative weathervane for the 50th anniversary of the filming of Jaws. The sound of copper clanging rings out as he repeatedly brings the hammer down on a chisel, slowly moving down the shape of a shark.

When you lose your partner, tasks envelop you in that first year. Change your bank accounts, send death certificates to Social Security and some credit card issuers and, yes, you also have to get rid of things.