Nature & Science
Next week at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, Dr. George Church will deliver a lecture on synthetic biology and its human health implications.
Every year since 1993, to honor National Trails Day, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank hosts a cross-Island hike.
Watching the terns that are nesting on Little Beach in Edgartown is spectacular.
Eastern tent caterpillars make silken shelters in the crotch of tree branches. It is hard not to notice the collective squirming of hundreds of hairy crawlers, and easy to be repulsed by them.
Pssssst, or rather Ssssst, it’s snake time on June 10 at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
The moon still dominates our evening sky this weekend. Friday’s gibbous moon resides in the zodiacal constellation Capricornis.
Almanac
A comprehensive guide to weather and tides on the Island.
Vineyard Gardener
I guess this past week weather-wise is called a January thaw. We did not really experience it the last several years as December was unseasonably warm.
Farm & Field
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.