The Mallory Trophy was originally offered to Lord Horatio Nelson by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire after the admiral’s victory over Napoleon on the Nile. Now it belongs to two Vineyard sailors after their victory over the field in the U.S. Men’s Sailing National Championship.

After a windy weekend in Sheboygan, Mich., the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club’s Paul Wilson and William Stevens, along with the Naragansett Yachting Association’s John Plominski, won the most prestigious amateur event in sailing in thrilling style.

Jessie Little Doe Baird was having a bad week. On Sept. 13 she went to a ceremony to ask for cleansing, to ask for help and to give thanks for the good and the bad in her life.

“We need both of those things, unfortunately. We do,” she said in an interview at her home in Aquinnah, built by her husband, the medicine man of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Jason Baird.

In a charming shack overlooking Menemsha, replete with scattered lobster traps, leatherbound nautical books and twin glossy Apple desktops, each armed with the latest in video editing software, Vineyard filmmaker Bob Nixon is putting the finishing touches on his latest documentary. His ambitions for the new film are modest: he wants to save the world.

In the effort to develop wind energy in the ocean between Block Island and Aquinnah, Massachusetts will follow the lead of the Ocean State.

As the response to a recent non-hurricane demonstrated, there is a longstanding tension on the Vineyard about whether it is one cohesive Island or rather a balkanized land mass of individual towns, each with their own personalities and interests. This Saturday the Martha’s Vineyard Museum celebrates that tension in kicking off a year-long exhibit titled Your Town, Our Island.