Early morning rain showers let up just in time for members of the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The annual vigil took place at sunrise yesterday at the Gay Head lighthouse.

Nine people stood in a circle, each sharing their thoughts on peace, faith and remembrance with the sound of waves crashing below. “This being one of the most beautiful spots that I can imagine . . . just seeing so much beauty gives me hope,” said Chris Fried.

If you have ever wanted to step inside one of the colorful gingerbread cottages that are a signature of Oak Bluffs and its historic Camp Ground, then tomorrow is the ideal time. The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association will host the 17th Camp Ground Cottage Tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, a self-guided experience that includes a walk through seven wonderful Camp Ground cottages and the Cottage Museum. The $25 admission fee benefits the Tabernacle Restoration Fund.

A crowd hovered at the entrance gate to the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning, as workers from Morning Glory Farm unloaded 32 bushels of corn intended for sale at the farm’s market booth. The market didn’t open for another 10 minutes, but this crowd was armed and ready, with tote bags and baskets as their weapons of choice.

Summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. Who couldn’t look at this time as anything but pure relaxation? Warm, fresh, salty air that just cleans out all the other weeks of the year from your lungs. You feel an extra spring in your step as you walk the sidewalks of the towns. There is a slight smile on your face that you just can’t seem to lose everywhere you go. All those other weeks of the year there is regular day-in, day-out time, and then there is Vineyard time, when everything runs just a little bit slower.

It’s August. Oh God, it’s August.

When you leave the Island for a couple of years and come back, as I have, it’s reassuring to know that most things don’t change much. The way folks behave in August, for example — that never changes. But that’s not good.

Like the Vineyard Gazette, I am a firm supporter of Obamacare. Much effort and thought went into developing a plan that phases in changes over several years that are intended to fix our ill-performing health care system.

What did you think when you heard President Obama say, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Did this statement make you angry or nod your head? Prof. Elizabeth Warren shares this bitter ideology and has used it against Sen. Scott Brown.

I have been going up to the Vineyard on a regular basis for the past 22 years, spending several weeks each in the spring, summer and fall. Early fall is my favorite time of year; the water is still warm, a lot of shops are still open and the huge crowds are gone.

Recently I read David Hearn’s letter regarding the denial of his request to install a pier from his property on the Vineyard Haven side of Lagoon Pond. The conservation commission denied his application yet again, based on the town bylaw. Generally, local bylaws are put in place by communities to compliment the Wetlands Protection Act and one of the stated interests in the act is to “protect land containing shellfish,” in this case the shellfish beds in Lagoon Pond.

Everyone who has Lyme disease or knows someone who does, go to your local library and see if they have two notebooks compiled by Steven Cabana. One is titled Ticks, and the other is Chronic Lyme Disease Recovery Protocols Used by Lyme Literate Practitioners.