As Island artists ferried their works into the new Art Barn at Featherstone, one paused to talk to about the arts on Martha’s Vineyard.

It’s a regular building boom. Sand castles with moats, forts and dredges, dams and tunnels, construction sites that defy names and spark the imagination.

As we head toward the Agricultural Fair and the farming tradition it celebrates, it is exciting to see Dan Sternbach harvesting this year’s local wheat and rye.

Actor Sterling Hayden was certainly a special case when I first met him one afternoon in 1975 at New York’s Algonquin Hotel restaurant.

Huge reptilian tracks in the sand of Methodist Cross Road has revived the belief that an alligator has somehow found its way to the Island.