Fifty years ago, when Wendy Benchley’s late husband Peter Benchley wrote a novel called Jaws, neither had any idea that it would become a phenomenon.

In 1974, Susan Murphy and her husband Lynn towed the 25-foot-long mechanical shark for the filming of the movie Jaws.

Author Percival Everett, whose new book James came out earlier this year, will be at the Performing Arts Center Sunday as part of the Martha's Vineyard Author Series.

There are paintbrushes in Harry’s Seymour art studio, about 50 or more in various sizes, shapes and thickness, but they sit on the sidelines resting idle by the sink in all manner of plastic containers.

Tiffany McCarty moved to the Vineyard in 2022 to be the director of nursing at Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Right away she began looking into ways to revitalize the softball program on the Island.

Susan Backlinie, who played the doomed skinny dipper Chrissie Watkins in Jaws, died May 11 at 77. The movie was released in 1975 and Ms. Backlinie became an enduring screen icon as the shark's first victim.