On Friday, the Lagoon Pond Floating Gallery became a venue for conversation between two groundbreaking women scientists — one African American and the other Wampanoag — about the importance of empowering students of color in the sciences and arts.

On Tuesday morning around the Island, bells were ringing again as Vineyard students headed back to the classroom for the first day of school.

The Ms. Foundation returned to the Vineyard this week for its 10th annual Ms. on Martha’s cocktail gathering and conversation.

The 161st Agricultural Fair opened Thursday morning in West Tisbury, a tradition that dates back to 1858. Nearly 2,000 people attended that first fair, which was held for one day on October 27, 1858, the traditional harvest season.

Both newcomers and longtime attendees reveled in Illumination Night Wednesday. The annual tradition dates back more than 150 years when the event was first held to welcome the governor of Massachusetts to the Island.

On Saturday, August 19, Malik Yoba introduces more than a dozen of his characters at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs as he performs his one-man show Harlem to Hollywood