Next week David Sedaris returns for his third summer performing on Martha’s Vineyard. He's a big fan of the Island, but says he could never spend his summers here. “It’s just too much of a good thing,” he said in a recent interview.

As a sunset faded over Menemsha, a crowd of beachgoers settled into the sand for short films about the local shellfishing industry and the perils of overdevelopment on the Cape and Islands.

The third annual Cook the Vineyard celebrated Island food and cookbook authors.

Peter Kramer discussed his new book Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants at the West Tisbury Library on Friday evening.

Festivities for the Holy Ghost Festival lasted all weekend, with celebrations on Saturday and Sunday at the P.A. Club and the traditional parade on Sunday morning.

On Thursday at the Hebrew Center, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne discussed what he considers to be a bleak future for right-wing American politics, though he said he respects parts of that movement.