The question on everyone’s lips was not who are you wearing, but what are you eating?

They were dressed to kill in the highest of heels and long strings of pearls; gussied up in bow ties and Ferragamo shoes. But last night, at the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust’s 23rd annual Taste of the Vineyard Gourmet Stroll outside the Dr. Daniel Fisher House in Edgartown, fashion took a back seat to the gluttonous display of food, wine and sweets.

Good morning! The Gazette carries complete coverage of Taste of the Vineyard plus news and photographs from weekend events. Read it on Tuesday.

In 2002, Kris Newby and her husband spent a week at their friend’s place in Chilmark. They had been warned about ticks and checked themselves every day of their stay. Though they didn’t find any ticks on themselves they both fell ill within weeks of their return to their home in California. One year and eight doctors later they finally were diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease.

Correction

The Farm and Field column in Tuesday’s Gazette gave the wrong location of Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm. The farm is in Virginia. The Gazette regrets the error.

Festival Network, the national company that plans to hold a concert this summer in Ocean Park featuring the Boston Pops, wound up in hot water with Oak Bluffs selectmen this week when a representative asked for permission to expand the concert to a second night.

The request from Rob Scherer drew heat from representatives of several Island nonprofits, who said they are still waiting for crucial information from event organizers about the availability of tickets, ticket prices and a list of scheduled performers.

Katie Mayhew, 16, of West Tisbury will perform with the Boston Pops on Wednesday, June 18, at Symphony Hall. The Pops will be conducted by Keith Lockhart. Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform the same evening.

Katie is one of six semi-finalists in the Pops High School Sing-Off. She will sing Being Alive, a song from the Broadway musical Company. She and two other semi-finalists will perform that night. The three other semi-finalists will have performed the night before.

His feet were sore. His toes and heels threatened to blister. They had taken him across ponds, through wetlands and tall grass, under the cover of pines and oaks, over soft moss and hard asphalt, around the bends, down the valleys and up the hills.

A recent project in Oak Bluffs to cull the population of Canada geese by addling their eggs has been completed. Town shellfish and environmental officials hope the project will reduce droppings on public greens, including Ocean Park, and reduce bacteria levels in coastal ponds, including Sengekontacket and Farm Pond.

Friday Conversation

William O’Brien, chairman of the Dukes County Charter Study Commission, will speak in the Friday Conversations program at the Oak Bluffs Senior Center from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 13. More information is available by calling moderator Robert A. Iadicicco at 508-693-9771.

A glass of wine or beer at the end of the day is relaxing and may have health benefits, it is said.

Hugh and Jeanne Taylor hope the addition of beer and wine sales to the dinner menu at the Outermost Inn will have the same effect on their business.

The inn has been granted Aquinnah’s first limited liquor license and the Taylors hope to begin pouring after a public hearing later this month. The hearing is required by state law.