On Saturday the first ever Mini Maker Faire on Martha’s Vineyard took place. Each faire is as diverse as the number of people presenting their work. The unifying principle is the creative mind.

The annual kids' trout tournament takes place on Saturday, May 7, beginning at first light. On Tuesday morning the first shipment of trout arrived at Duarte's Pond.

Chris Fischer’s cookbook, published last spring, was honored this week with a James Beard Award for American Cooking.

The Martha’s Vineyard Concert Series will feature, among others, Alan Cumming, Erin Brockovich, Paula Poundstone and the return of David Sedaris. Adam Epstein is the producer.

Shakespeare for the Masses will perform three, yes three, Shakespeare plays in one hour — Richard II and Henry IV, parts one and two.

On Wednesday afternoon Miss Lani sat on the floor with a group of young children at the children’s art studio.

In 1885 Parnell Smith Pease of the Vineyard joined her husband on a whaling trip aboard the Alaska. Her diary is up for auction on Thursday at Swann Auction Galleries in New York city.

I was one of three boys growing up. We ate a lot of meat, compared scars, had pushup contests and wrestled competitively.

It was cold and blustery on Jan. 2, but that didn’t stop a large number of Island birders from heading out into nature for the 56th annual Christmas Bird Count on the Vineyard.

Throughout her life Carly Simon has been a dutiful diarist, and so the whole of her life was just an arm’s length away waiting to be reborn.