Pam Benjamin of Vineyard Haven is working to aid the people of Île-à-Vache after Hurricane Matthew smashed through southwestern Haiti last week. “This is the worst storm that has ever hit them,” said Ms. Benjamin.
More than 30 people and their pets took part in Saturday’s Domestic Violence Awareness Walk from Edgartown’s Park and Ride to the harborfront and back.
This weekend brings two final performances at the MV Playhouse of The Second Girl, a remarkable play that’s gotten both its earliest start and its finishing touches on the Island.
The Lonely Heartstring Band, a quintet of conservatory-trained string players based in the Boston area is playing a free show Sunday at the Port Hunter in Edgartown.
When Mary Stewart Hammond’s poem The Big Fish Story was published in The New Yorker 10 years ago, her husband “was so mortified,” she said, “He went down to the Stop & Shop (and) bought every copy so his friends wouldn’t see it.”
Children decorated the cobblestones at the base of the Edgartown lighthouse with slipper shells as more than 100 people gathered for the 15th annual Ceremony of Remembrancel.
Chris Smither performed a sold-out show at the Strand Theatre on Saturday at a free concert hosted by Boston-area radio station WUMB. Willy Mason and Marciana Jones opened the show.
Every September, the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival takes movie-lovers on a world tour of cinema with films from virtually every part of the globe.
A Somali-Canadian rapper whose best-known song has racked up more than 50 million online-video views (so far) is in Edgartown this week to develop his first musical for the stage, commissioned by New York’s Public Theater.
