The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $18,260 for the business week ending on Friday, June 13, 2014.

First grade students from Edgartown School explored the education programs at Polly Hill Arboretum, which are offered free of charge to kindergarten through fourth grade students throughout the Island.

Ruth Epstein will turn 89 in a matter of days and she has spent the better part of her life creating works of art.

In Bandstand, his exciting new caper novel, Jib Ellis dances nimbly through a millennium of Viking, Knights Templar and pirate buried treasure lore to weave a gold-threaded contemporary tapestry of beguiling wit and vision.

The Garden Party to benefit the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is promising a very exciting live auction. Trip Barnes, the seasoned auctioneer, will have plenty of desirable items to sell.

Matilda Alexander of Vineyard Haven, a graduate of Cambridge School of Weston, has been named to the dean’s list for the spring 2014 semester at the College of Wooster.

Jennifer Knight and Stefan Knight of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Alex Logan Knight, born on June 18 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

This article first appeared in the May/June issue of Martha's Vineyard Magazine.

“For a girl or a woman to embark on a long whaling voyage required great fortitude and determination,” wrote Henry Beetle Hough, co-author with Emma Mayhew Whiting of Whaling Wives, published in 1953. Sailing with her whaling-captain husband meant that a wife could avoid a separation that might last as long as five years, but life as the only woman aboard ship was, said Hough and Whiting, “a prospect of bleakness and hazard.”

The Charles W. Morgan arrived at Vineyard Haven harbor to a barrage of cannonfire and boat horns while onlookers gathered to witness her arrival, some in tears. The Morgan is the last wooden whaling ship in the world.

The manager of the Martha’s Vineyard Airport has been granted a medical leave for an undisclosed length of time. Commission chairman Norman Perry said Wednesday that he granted the leave request to manager Sean Flynn earlier in the week, before meeting in executive session with his board.