Centuries ago, the branches of cleft-leaved hawthorn trees, covered with two-inch thorns and adorned with budding white blossoms, could be seen all over the Island. Now only about 30 remain.

A six-foot long cape covered with gray turkey feathers sits triumphantly inside a glass box at the Aquinnah Cultural Center. It may be the first of its kind to be created in over 400 years.

When New York artist Louis Eisner was asked to create his solo exhibit, Persona non grata, for the Winter Street Gallery in Edgartown, he was reading Naked Lunch, the infamous novel by William S. Burroughs.

At the 79th annual iteration of the derby, which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 19, false albacore will be eligible for daily awards and daily prize money is going up.  

Island scientists are trying to find out why the three sea turtles have washed up on Vineyard beaches so far this summer.

The Tisbury Street Fair’s reputation as a playground for silly-stringers held true again this year. Thin ribbons of fluorescent foam decorated the asphalt Monday night and no passer-by was safe.