Here they come. Three vans full. I’m hot. I’m exhausted. And I’m nervous. Camp Jabberwocky shows up in my meadow every year for a lively session of the Chilmark Writing Workshop.

I’m listening to Cole Porter while I write this because Abigail McGrath, founder of the Renaissance House, told me to. Or more specifically, she was talking about Porter and poetry and Eminem when I walked up to the porch on a recent summer night for the Salon Series with Martha’s Vineyard poets Justen Ahren, Dan Waters and Michael West.

Ellen Stimson's Mud Season chronicles her family’s 2003 move from city life in St. Louis to country life in a tiny Vermont town. The book is a finalist for a New England Book Award.

On Friday, July 18, from 4 to 7 p.m., check out the work of three distinct styles of art by Islanders Steve Lohman, Jenifer Strachan and Sarah Nelson.

A campaign by residents to bring high-speed internet service to Chappaquiddick continues this summer. Comcast will provide cable service if 270 homeowners pay an up-front fee of $2,139 and agree to sign on with the provider for two years. While a majority of Chappy people have said yes to the proposal with checks, a number have been silent or noncommittal, and the July 21 extended deadline for sign-up is fast approaching. Campaign callers working phones say they have heard it all.

On Monday and Tuesday of this past week the Chamber Music Society started their summer season in fine form. The season continues with a concert simply called “Cool.”

By the year 2050, Massachusetts needs 52 per cent of the commonwealth to be permanently conserved as open space.

Currently, a quarter of the bay state’s five million acres is developed, a quarter is protected and the rest is up for grabs.

Filmmakers explore the serious and whimsical world of whistling in their film Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling.

Every region of the Vineyard, and for an Island of a hundred square miles in area, there are a surprising number and a variety of regions, enclaves, realms, provinces and natural districts, is a repository of its own variety of summer experience. In sum they would make a patchwork of history as uncontrived and as interesting as an old time patchwork quilt. Some of these summer experiences were broadly public, some sequestered and private, and many of them are already forgotten.