Tivoli Day is upon us again, for the 35th year in a row. The day is the Oak Bluffs answer for what to do at the end of summer. Celebrate!

The party rolls from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15. The town closes down Circuit avenue to traffic of the motorized kind and lets the pedestrians get full right of way.

There will be music; BallyHoo, Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish, Phil DaRosa and DCLA.

There will be food; outdoor dining, no less.

There will be frolic; a climbing wall, crafts, raffles and Flying Horses ring catching contest.

To become an All-Ireland music champion is no easy feat. Ireland may be a small country, but it takes its traditional music very seriously. Throw a rock, or better yet an empty pint of Guiness, and surely you will hit a musician, and not just a part-time dabbler, but a real pro. Now gather this large assortment of musicians in your head, filter out the merely good and great to pit the outstanding against the outstanding, and finally, crown the best of the best.

Vineyard fashion is often said to be an oxymoron. Barn glamour, beach chic, preppy with a tinge of hippie are frequently used to describe how Islanders dress. But while dress clogs, Muck Boots, a clean pair of jeans, cowboy boots and the reliable plaid shirt may all be staples in many Vineyard closets, a group of Vineyard fashion designers have set out to redefine what it means to dress with comfort, confidence and, above all, personal expression.

Beginning Monday, Sept. 17, and running through Saturday, Sept.

Paper is so embedded in daily life as to be almost invisible. It is a transmitter. The message it bears, whether a scribbled note or a printed contract, is the focal point.

Turn over any rock, wander down a new hiking path, take a closer look at a shell. Nature is full of surprises and the pages of the book Moraine to Marsh reveal just that. This field guide to Martha’s Vineyard is often tucked away on many Island bookshelves, maybe caked with mud or dust, a cherished and often-turned-to friend. But 25 years after its publication, the book is no longer in print, and just a few treasured copies remain.

Last September I stood in the kitchen at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School with 14 other volunteers and 1,600 pounds of fresh roma tomatoes, picked that morning at Morning Glory Farm. The farm owners realized they were not going to be able to harvest this bounty themselves before the ripe and tender fruit was past its prime, and had opened their fields to the Island Grown Gleaning volunteers to pick all they could.