For Jeannette Walls, truth is at the heart of writing, from her journalism and wildly-successful debut memoir to her most recent novel, Hang the Moon.

Artist Stella Waitzkin, a longtime Vineyarder who died in 2003, is being celebrated again with an exhibit at the Slag Gallery in New York city called These Books Are Paintings.

Evolve Pilates recently underwent an expansion, debuting two new fitness rooms, one of which houses a drum set.

Oscar Thompson has spent the summer chasing turtles for his senior thesis at college. Not known for their speed, painted turtles can still be elusive in their natural habitat deep within the Vineyard's ponds.

A big white oak tree on North Road, considered a “wolf tree,” is the king of white oaks on the Vineyard.

On August 11, Charlie Fenske of Edgartown was named one of the 16 teen finalists in Google's global science fair. On Sept. 27 he travels to Silicon Valley for the final awards ceremony.