It’s official: Kindle and e-books may flourish, but real books with pages you can turn are here to stay. Just as television thrived without disposing of movies, books and book lovers will never go away. Last Sunday’s Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival proved it.

In addition to its public appearance at the Martha’s Vineyard Arena on Wednesday, the Stanley Cup appeared at the Aquinnah town hall for about 45 minutes in the early afternoon. The 35-inch, 35-pound silver trophy was in the care of seasonal Island resident Cam Neely, the president of the 2011 Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins.

Margaret Marshall is certainly no Pollyanna, but something about speaking with her kindles optimism.

The former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has a way of looking at things, a calm, reasoned, broad view that leads you gently to accept — at least for awhile — her conclusion that “little by little, things are getting better.”

She likes to take the long view: change for the better is possible if you just keep plugging away at it.

Tisbury will begin assessing $1,000 a day against the contractor for the town’s troubled new emergency services building.

The town selectmen voted without dissent on Tuesday to begin charging penalties against Seaver Construction of Woburn, the general contractor for the Spring street project which has been plagued by an array of problems and is well behind schedule.

The contract between the town and Seaver allowed for the penalties if the project was not completed by July 9.