Following a huge welcome home early this month, the Charles W. Morgan is now back in her berth at Chubb’s Wharf at Mystic Seaport. There are no barrels of whale oil to unload this time, but instead a wealth of new information to digest.

I painstakingly separated the tiny thyme plants into cells. They had stems no bigger than a human hair. I planted them all randomly in my vegetable garden and pretty much ignored them for a year.

Rebecca Gilbert of Native Earth Teaching Farm definitely has her ducks in a row. Her Cayuga ducks, that is! This special species were by far my favorite animals at the Agricultural Fair last week.

Unveil your inner archaeologist at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Saturday, August 30, from 9 a.m. to noon as a panel of experts explain your rare finds.

Bob Shriber's yard in Aquinnah was the hot spot as he spotted a yellow-billed cuckoo, which has been rare on the Vineyard this summer.

Some say it is over, others say we have to wait until the middle of September, but the Grand Illumination was last week as was the fair and the fireworks. Those events signal the end of summer.

Well, we had many activities to keep us busy and the usual annual all-Island events of August, Illumination Night, the fireworks and the Agricultural Fair. There is a special feeling to winning a ribbon at the fair.

Catherine Walthers digs deep into the richness that is kale in her new cookbook Kale, Glorious Kale.

A sergeant with the Oak Bluffs police department will take on a new role this year as the school resource officer at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

Earlier this summer, Holly Lawyer put a roof over her art and a number of others’ when she opened up a shop at 55 Circuit avenue.