The Rev. Cathlin Baker is pastor for the First Congregational Church of West Tisbury.

When Gabby Carr was eight years old and the YMCA first opened on the Island she joined the Makos, the Vineyard’s youth swim team.

At 4:30 a.m. Menemsha Harbor is glassy and Stanley Larsen is headed out to sea for a day of fishing in Four Kids.

Juggling, six AP classes, two editorships and volunteer work at the animal shelter, Astoria Hall also creates whimsical pen and ink drawings.

There are about 700 permits of various classifications issued by the federal government to fish for sea scallops on the East Coast. Sam Hopkins of West Tisbury has one of them.

Sitting together in the living room of their Aquinnah home, Cora and Peter Weiss work in tandem to tell the stories of their lives.