Brunelle Studios hosts open studios every Saturday throughout August from 2 to 6 p.m.

The Friends of the West Tisbury Library are holding their annual book sale beginning on Friday, August 1, and continuing through Monday, August 4.

In recent times, antiquarian maps have become a treasure coveted by collectors, libraries, museums. And thieves.

The Gam, More songs the Whalemen Sang is a sequel to E. Gale Huntington's book Songs the Whalemen Sang.

The Cottagers in Oak Bluffs present the 10th annual African American Cultural Festival on Thursday and Friday, July 31 and August 1, at Cottagers Corner and Hartford Park.

“When we last met...” is how Mel Patrick introduced each annual issue of the Delegate. The Delegate, published between 1965 and 1985, was a magazine that chronicled the leaders and activities of Black America’s disparate business, cultural, sports, club, labor, advertising, political and social organizations, and it always had a section devoted to Oak Bluffs. His daughter, Nashawena Park’s cottager Anne Patrick, donated a full set of these historic treasures to the Smithsonian Institution for its new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Chilmark welcomes August and all the folks arriving this week for their month in the sun. It was a quick goodbye to our annual July friends — did we actually catch a moment with them, or was it just a quick greeting?

I don’t know if you have attended Tuesday’s Music on the Lawn at the library sponsored by the Friends of the Edgartown Library, but July was a hit and upcoming August 12 will be The Grateful Dread, and Johnny Hoy plays on August 19.

Juliet K. Mulinare, Joseph Mulinare and Kathryn Shands purchased 4 Tower Lane in Edgartown from Catherine A. Hartley for $425,000 on July 22.

The Edgartown planning board has closed a public hearing but has yet to vote on whether to approve plans for eight loft apartments in the busy B-2 business district off Upper Main street. Residents of the Dark Woods neighborhood are up in arms over the plan.