When Gail Straub was growing up in Wilmington, Del. in the 1960s, she didn’t have many vivid examples of travel — or worldliness — before her.

The Vineyard Preservation Trust celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. Its half-century milestone will include celebrations and reflections on how the Trust came to be and where it’s going.

South Mountain Company founder John Abrams likes to joke that as a student at Wesleyan University in the late 1960s, he was “the first person in the class of 1971 to drop out.

South Mountain Company employees spent last week learning from Patrick Moore, the first person in the Western hemisphere to graduate from Compagnons du Devoir, a 10-year apprentice program during which students travel around France learning from skilled artisans. 

Famed photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt’s lingering presence on Martha’s Vineyard is sometimes easily apparent to the eye, other times lurking behind the scenes. A new exhibit at the museum places him front and center.

Call him resident dad. Phil Hughes, owner of Wheel Happy, is standing behind the counter of his Edgartown bike shop on recent afternoon, repairing an XC Cannondale mountain bike, spinning its wheels.