Robert S. Douglas, renowned designer and captain of the topsail schooner Shenandoah — as well as a teacher and mentor and businessman who founded the Black Dog apparel company — died early Wednesday at the family home at Arrowhead Farm in West Tisbury. He was 93.

The story of Reverend Denniston and his family is currently on display at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in an exhibit called Finding Our Way Home: The Denniston Family and 11 Masonic Avenue. 

Though the idea seems far-fetched now, Martha's Vineyard was a part of New York for about 30 years in the 1600s.

On Sunday, the African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard is highlighting Ambler B. Wormley, a World War I veteran and gas station proprietor who lived in Oak Bluffs.

Vineyarders were taken back in time on Thursday, to the late 1800s and the end of Edgartown’s whaling industry, when town leaders were trying to come up with ideas to revive the moribund Edgartown waterfront.

The New England Wireless and Steam Museum, in East Greenwich, R.I., plans to restore the former Steamship ferry's 1925 engine to running order for public demonstrations.