In January, while Vineyarders endured battering sleet storms and mid-winter cabin fever, at least one of the Island’s piping plovers was enjoying a respite from the New England doldrums in the Caribbean. After a two-decade hiatus in researching plover migration, scientists from the Canadian Wildlife Service again started a tagging effort this winter in the Bahamas that has just begun to offer insight into the migration and behavior of this tenacious and much ballyhooed little creature, one of whom will call Aquinnah home this summer.

Bob Daniels sat on the edge of his red pickup truck, a bounty of flowers, kale, potatoes and rhubarb spread out on the table in front of him, waiting for the market bell to ring. As one of the longest-selling vendors at the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market, Mr. Daniels has been waiting for the opening bell every June for the past 36 years.

A 28-foot sailboat named after a John Coltrane ballad was christened and launched on Saturday at the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway in Vineyard Haven.

Naima, the sailboat’s name, is an Arabic woman’s name, said the new owner, Bill Ryan, of State College, Pa.

Mr. Ryan, a Penn State meteorologist, and his wife, Joan Richtsmeier, shared the launch with a handful of friends.