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The Upis Land Band led a throng of enthusiastic listeners and dancers up Circuit avenue Saturday night in what has become an end-of-season tradition. This year Best Fest celebrated on Halloween weekend with live music, costumes and a New Orleans-style street parade.
October 30, 2023
The Vineyard football team rallied with 17 points in the second half in an epic 24-21 win to secure the 43rd playing of the Island Cup. The Vineyarders now hold a 22-21 advantage in the best of Island competition.
October 29, 2023
Halloween falls on Tuesday and the epicenter for all things scary on the Island will be William street, where goblins, ghosts, princesses and mermaids of all shapes and sizes go to trick-or-treat.
October 29, 2023
The family of scarecrows that has made a home in Vineyard Haven can’t manage to scare people away. Main street has been jammed with cars that slow to a snail’s pace as drivers and passengers check out Tisbury’s Halloween visitors.
October 28, 2023
Dancers, actors, musicians and visual artists have turned the Grange Hall in West Tisbury into an all-ages haunted house for the next two weekends, with a new performance piece titled Granger Things by Island choreographer-playwright and producer Abby Bender.
October 28, 2023
Lambert's Cove Road was alive with the sound of hammers as an old-fashioned barn raising took place for Island Autism. The new campus is in phase one to create a full-time residential home and community for autistic children and adults.
October 25, 2023
There is something timeless — and therefore reassuring — with a Vineyard beach on a sunny October day. No matter how many times you have made the short journey to Lambert’s Cove Beach, it is a visceral moment when you arrive at the top of the dunes.
October 24, 2023
In October birds begin migrating past Martha's Vineyard; some are summer resident species leaving for winter homes, while others nested north and west and are migrating down the Atlantic coast. Meanwhile our avian winter residents start to arrive.
October 24, 2023
Mother Nature threw a curveball for the Harvest Festival Saturday at the Agricultural Hall. But carry on Islanders did, leaving the rain outside, moving indoors and celebrating the bounty of October.
October 22, 2023
As the seasons shift one to the other, we celebrate the brief bright palette of leaves about to fall, rejoice in the warmth left in the earth, and glory in the Vineyard in fall.
October 22, 2023
Button-encrusted derby hats, hooded sweatshirts and waterproof rubber boots filled the tent at Farm Neck Golf Club Sunday as Island recreational fishermen gathered to celebrate the end of the 78th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.
October 17, 2023
On Saturday evening, fishermen were lined up half-way down the Edgartown dock for the final weigh-in of the 78th Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.
October 16, 2023
The rhythms in the Island community echo the new melody in the natural world around us. You can taste it in the October air on that last bracing sail before the boat goes into storage for another cold season.
October 15, 2023
Familiar places become wondrously new in the recast light of October. This is never more evident than at the edges of the day, when you can’t help but notice a clean, fine quality in the light as the first beams of the sun — or the last — slant across lawns and open places.
October 15, 2023
Islanders gathered at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary Monday to hear Wampanoag singing, drumming, flute, and stories from native speakers.celebrate the third annual Indigenous Peoples Day hosted by Sassafras Earth Education.
October 11, 2023
With just one week remaining in the 78th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish derby, anything can happen, especially as the number of fish crossing the scales each day routinely reaches triple digits.
October 10, 2023