Among the greatest legacies of Queen Victoria, who died in 1891, are the funeral rituals from that long-ago era that bears her name, the Victorian Age. When her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861 the queen was so devastated she retreated from Buckingham Palace to her country estates, and wore widow’s weeds for the rest of her life.

In style for many decades, black was the new black.

Flowers come in all different shapes and sizes, but rarely do they come in the form of small children.

“Today you’re an apple flower,” Melinda Rabbit DeFeo, of Island Grown Schools, said as her student petals stood around her in Chilmark earlier this week. The Edgartown fourth grade had traveled to the home of Peter Norris to pick apples and learn how they grow.

Your dog bit three people. Drew blood each time and now you’re told, “It’s time to euthanize, time to put the dog down.” To the non-dog person the third bite is two bites too late. But what does the dog owner hear? “You’re telling me to kill my dog. Kill a family member that I love dearly?”