Red Stocking Fund stalwart Kerry Alley, who has always shunned the spotlight, learned the surprise news on Wednesday that a six-figure fund has been named in his honor.
When deer hunting season on Martha’s Vineyard begins Oct. 5, so will the venison donation program. Coordinated by Island Grown Initiative, the agricultural society and the tick-borne illness prevention program, the system allows hunters to donate surplus meat that will go to feed hungry Islanders.
Early fall traffic on Steamship Authority ferries has been robust this year, with Labor Day weekend bringing an end-of-summer spike in travelers, according to a report from the boat line Tuesday.
At the Old Sculpin Gallery on Dock street in Edgartown, six paintings by Allen Whiting—including two of Edgartown scenes—take pride of place in the gallery’s center aisle.
Martha’s Vineyard residents in need are eating more locally-raised food than ever before, thanks to a network of Island farms, volunteers and social service agencies in the Island Grown Gleaning program.
More than half a dozen World War II-era planes paid a visit to Martha’s Vineyard Sunday, landing at the Katama Airfield, and putting on a small show overhead.
The Winter Street Gallery continues its mission of bringing cutting-edge visual arts to the Vineyard with a show by students in the Yale School of Art’s MFA photography program.
Ten years ago this month, Ann Smith was named executive director of Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs, replacing her mother, Francine Kelly, who had run the community nonprofit since 2003.
