The Chicken Alley Art and Collectable Sale is this Sunday, August 17, from 1 to 5 p.m. The sale benefits Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.

The Yard comes together with the African American Film Festival with Camille A. Brown and Dancers on Saturday, August 16, at 6:30 p.m.

Senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., Rev. Raphael Warnock will be the guest preacher at the West Tisbury Congregational Church on Sunday, August 17.

On August 20, the Camp Ground will turn into a fantasy land of Victorian gingerbread houses and hundreds of paper lanterns hanging from porches. Welcome once again to the Grand Illumination.

The final dinner and a movie offering for the summer season of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival at the Chilmark Community Center will be Wednesday, August 20.

In 2012 two teachers on playground duty at their elementary school in Los Angeles decided it would be fun to form a band. This wasn't idle playground talk, either. They were serious.

Peter Pan the musical soars to the stage of Performing Arts Center at the regional high school from August 16 to 19 and August 21 to 24 to benefit the Island Center for Living.

Cinema Circus finishes its summer season in Oak Bluffs this Sunday, August 17, from noon to 6 p.m. at Cottagers' Corner, by Hartford Park.

Whether spending long summer days working or playing, summer on the Island is an energetic time of year. On Island roads, in grocery store lines, even eating our meals, the pace is quick.

In 1973, when Pulitzer Prize-winning UPI journalist Lucinda Franks was 26, she was sent to interview U.S. attorney Robert Morgenthau, who had just been fired by Richard Nixon.