I sometimes take the VTA bus to work or go on errands. On a recent afternoon, on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, I sat toward the back of the bus because it was crowded.

I’m an architect from Florence, Italy and a Vineyard summer resident since 1994.

My worst nightmare is to shop for ticking, a tightly woven and heavy fabric, used for upholstery and initially used for mattresses.

I am attuned to sound. I have been since I was a child and liked to capture the sounds, voices and happenings in my world on my red Take ‘n Tape Panasonic cassette recorder.

On Sunday the regional high school class of 2024 will walk across the Tabernacle stage, traveling in that short distance from high school students to the next steps in their young lives: college, work, travel, the possibilities are limitless.

On the masthead of the Vineyard Gazette, typically on page six, to the right of the logo of a plump bunch of grapes is this: Established in 1846 A Journal of Island Life.