Both music and wine flowed generously at Featherstone’s campus last Friday night for the opening of the opera Impresario Now! and the gala dinner honoring Judy Belushi Pisano.

This Monday at Flatbread Pizza, singer Donavon Frankenreiter will give a performance of new and old music, marking his return to the Vineyard.

Micro-habitats on the Vineyard are really important, National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis said in a brief interview with the Gazette Monday. Mr. Jarvis was on the Island to attend a private fundraiser.

Caroll Spinney is in the spotlight with the release of the documentary I Am Big Bird, which chronicles his life and career playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. He was recently on the Vineyard for a film screening and puppet-making workshop.

The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival celebrated its return to the Island for the sixth time this weekend. The festival featured a wide range of writers talking about their craft with eager readers who filled tents on the grounds of the Chilmark Community Center and a room at the Harbor View Hotel.

Benito Mussolini is long gone, but the institution that helped bring him and keep him in power may not be, according to a new Pulitzer Prize winning book by historian and Brown University professor David Kertzer.