The key to a great seafood meal on the Vineyard naturally lies in the best ingredients: just-caught fish, farm-fresh produce and a talented chef.

At the second annual Seafood Throwdown on Saturday, the organizers brought all three together in the hot summer sun at the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market.

A competition between two Island chefs, the throwdown is designed to raise awareness about locally-caught fish and an Island initiative called Vineyard Wild Caught Seafood.

Farming on Martha’s Vineyard has become more than a just a career path for a few determined individuals whose parents were farmers. It has also become a trend for many young people who want to know where their food comes from and want to grow it themselves.

Angel Flight Northeast is one of the unsung heroes of Island life: a group of pilots who offer free transport to people needing access to medical care. The organization is now in its 15th year, having served Martha’s Vineyard since 1997. As of June 4 (the last time statistics were tallied), Angel Flight NE had scheduled more than 8,600 flights and flown 5,400 missions for Vineyard residents. This equates to $1.7 million in donated time and expenses for patients and their families living on Martha’s Vineyard.

Elisha R. Smith, 88, can remember going to the fair with his grandfather, George Smith, who was really his uncle. “But I always called him grandfather,” Mr. Smith said, seated in the shade of his Oak Bluffs farm on Saturday. The senior statesman among Island farmers, Mr. Smith has many fond memories of fair days, which were a festive time and a time to take a break, at least for a few hours, from the daily chores of milking cows, collecting eggs and delivering milk to families in Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs.

In addition to its public appearance at the Martha’s Vineyard Arena on Wednesday, the Stanley Cup appeared at the Aquinnah town hall for about 45 minutes in the early afternoon. The 35-inch, 35-pound silver trophy was in the care of seasonal Island resident Cam Neely, the president of the 2011 Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins.

It’s official: Kindle and e-books may flourish, but real books with pages you can turn are here to stay. Just as television thrived without disposing of movies, books and book lovers will never go away. Last Sunday’s Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival proved it.