Leave your credit cards and your worries behind and hop a ferry over to Cuttyhunk, our little sister to the west. It’s an undiscovered island filled with 400 friendly summer people, beautiful wooded walks, welcoming beaches and a sense of peace and tranquility reminiscent of life in the 1950s. Or even earlier.

Kennith Kirk tugged the hem of his mother’s dress. Over the screams and laughs of his twin siblings, Maya and Robert, Kennith’s question was barely audible to all but his mother. “Why are there so many moons?” the three-year-old wanted to know. Maya, seven, whipped her head around and said “They’re lightbulbs!”

The Martha’s Vineyard team of The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter will host a fundraiser on Tuesday, August 21 at Black Sheep in Edgartown. The evening will feature three pairings of wine, cheese and charcuterie at two seating options, 6 and 8:15 p.m. Tickets are $55 and may be purchased in advance at Black Sheep, 18 North Summer street, or by calling 774-549-9118. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to help maintain the many services that The American Red Cross provides on Martha’s Vineyard to seasonal and year-round residents.

Built on Stilts, the popular
16-year-old grassroots dance festival, continues through Tuesday,
August 21, at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. All shows are free. Doors
open at 7:30 p.m. and performances start at 8 p.m. For a detailed
schedule or more information, visit builtonstilts.org.

Once again it is the time of summer for the Chicken Alley Arts and Collectibles Sale. This year’s sale will be held Sunday, August 19, from 1 to 5 p.m.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrived on the Vineyard Saturday morning for a brief fundraising visit, with a small group of supporters braving the rain to greet him.

The plane carrying Mr. Romney arrived at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport at about 10:20 Saturday morning, with state police cars and motorcycles and Secret Service on the ground to greet him.

Wynton Marsalis is, well, Wynton Marsalis, one of the premier jazz trumpeters of our time. Mr. Marsalis is also a composer, teacher, music educator and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York city. He has been awarded nine Grammys and one of his jazz recordings won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

On August 18, the Wynton Marsalis Quintet will be playing a concert at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. The show begins at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $25, $50, with limited VIP tickets priced at $100, which includes an invitation to a post-concert reception.

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is scheduled to make a brief trip to the Vineyard Saturday for a private fundraising event.

Mr. Romney has no public appearances planned during his visit.

The event is a clambake luncheon at the Oak Bluffs home of Kate and Jim Sims in Farm Neck.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $144,873 for the business week ending on Friday, August 10, 2012. The land bank receives its funds from a two per cent fee charged on many Vineyard real estate transactions.

State officials this morning presented more than $284,000 in grants to fund clean energy projects for the towns of Tisbury and West Tisbury through the Green Communities Act.

Appearing on the Agricultural Fair’s central stage, Department of Energy Resources Commissioner Mark Sylvia said, “It is an absolutely pleasure to be here to join the Agricultural Society and the towns of Tisbury and West Tisbury to celebrate two of our newest designated green communities.”