No more teachers, no more books. It’s the anthem of June for elementary and high school students who are counting the days until school lets out for the summer.

Then there are the rest of us who, free of the shackles of mandatory education, now look forward to the high season for the many opportunities it offers to keep on learning.

The 1976 book To the Harbor Light by longtime Gazette editor Henry Beetle Hough drew its title from his daily early morning walks to the Edgartown Lighthouse with his collie Graham. It was a place Mr. Hough knew well, and in fact had campaigned more than once to save for public walking and enjoyment of the stunning views across the outer Edgartown harbor to Cape Pogue. Mr. Hough wrote that the lighthouse was “the kind of solitary outpost where the greatest product, peace of mind, is free to all.”

Rain fell softly and fog blew in from the ocean this week across a lush green Island after tinder-dry conditions so early in the season had weather watchers worried and firefighters on high alert. Everything has been early this year in the natural world. No winter at all to speak of, followed by a very early spring.

On Saturday all over the world, people will be celebrating the benefits of locally grown, unprocessed food as part of Food Revolution Day, an educational outreach championed by British chef and food activist Jamie Oliver. Here on the Vineyard, Island Grown Schools, led by coordinator Noli Taylor, is a shining example of how a community can promote healthy eating and support local agriculture, too.

As the moon ascends into the night sky it appears to shrink. Astronomers and scientists tell us this is not so and that its size remains exactly the same as when it first appears on the horizon. Rather, they say, it is the moon’s contrast to surface landmarks, such as trees and buildings, that makes it appear so large while low in the sky. It is an optical illusion.

The last votes have been tallied and the results are clear: Vineyard voters do not want a roundabout in the middle of the Island.