The week leading up to Independence Day weekend festivities got an early start with the highly successful Evening of Discovery fundraising event at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on June 28.
Some five years ago Skip Finley and Kahina Van Dyke began to curate a series of events to celebrate Juneteenth and many organizations and sponsors joined the planning.
Kathy and I gathered with family in Sarasota, Fla. for Thanksgiving at the home of my daughter Caroline and son Brian.
In the Age of Brooke, the Labor Day Weekend was considered by many in the Oak Bluffs village as the final weekend of the summer season.
Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. wrote a column in his newspaper The People’s Voice, sharing his sense of personal freedom on the Vineyard.
Richard Washington, longtime Island resident and native of Everett died on August 30.