About the same time Trip Barnes started his business, Clarence A. Barnes Moving and Storage, he found three people dead in three weeks, all out on Chappaquiddick. Fifty-four years later Trip is still moving.

In summer, the slam of the screen door announced visitors before they called out the name of who they came to see. It was always special company when it was Uncle Ed.

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Mozzarella — that was the headline for an article about Flatbread, written soon after the restaurant opened on July 3, 2010.

Eleven acres and a dream. That was how it all began in 1959 when Henry Beetle Hough and Elizabeth Bowie Hough bought the old ice house property in Edgartown and launched the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation.

The following is excerpted from an oral history interview done with Edward W. Brooke by Linsey Lee of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in August of 2007. Mr. Brooke was on the Vineyard promoting his autobiography Bridging the Divide: My Life.

Senator Brooke was remembered this week as the Island’s own — a man whose summers were spent at his home on Nashawena Park with family and friends, a skilled tennis player and a community steward and role model.

Flatbread, the popular wood-fired pizza franchise near the Martha’s Vineyard Airport that has hosted fundraisers, family dance parties and concerts, will not reopen this summer, owner Jay Gould has confirmed.

“The season is too short for us. We do very well in July and August, but it’s not enough,” Mr. Gould told the Gazette in an email early Tuesday.

The death of former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke comes as a personal loss for me. I had the distinct honor of working for Senator Brooke in Washington, D.C., both as a summer intern in 1970, and for two years following my graduation from college.

If you see smoke billowing out of the Lampost on Sunday, do not be alarmed. The Oak Bluffs bar and nightclub will be the site of a major fire drill Sunday morning from 8 a.m. to noon involving three Island fire departments.

Think of the infinite spaces between the past and present, the present and the future. If we took a breath, slowed down, we would enjoy “the music of the spheres” in our daily living.