One shopkeeper says she senses more enthusiasm and gaiety among shoppers, and a local innkeeper appreciates the way people don’t seem to be rushing through the holidays.
Revelers donned red antlers as they drank hot cocoa, visited with friends, listened to the Vineyard Brass Ensemble and waited for Santa to arrive at the annual Oak Bluffs tree lighting ceremony.
Across the Vineyard, this holiday season unfolds in myriad small events that twinkle like so many lights on Island streets, in churches and schools. Looking about us in this season, we find fresh reasons to rejoice in calling the Vineyard home.