The Martha’s Vineyard Wind Festival dates back to 1967 but one could say it started long before that, when the first kite soared into the skies and the first kid held tightly to a string.

Home is never far from Miriam Louise Arens’s mind.

The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival is more than an armchair trip around the world this year — it also travels back in time.

The Cleaveland House poetry group was founded in 1963 by Dionis Coffin Riggs in the parlor of her West Tisbury home. The group just published an anthology, its first since 2013.

To capture the rippling interplay of light and waves in the waters around Martha’s Vineyard, photographer Jeanna Shepard shoots when the setting or rising sun casts a honeyed light across the sea.