It was a rainy afternoon in Edgartown on Wednesday when Gus Ben David received a phone call from Ken Galley asking to come over immediately. Although Mr. Ben David retired from the Felix Neck...

On Monday night, Sally Taylor and her brother Ben sat side by side, singing a song together as the sun set behind them. Mr. Taylor strummed his guitar while Ms. Taylor tapped her foot to the beat, a...

Peter Yarrow does not believe in the sanctity of anniversaries. Growing up with an iconoclastic mother, holidays such as birthdays and Mother’s Day never had much importance to him. He doesn...

The Martha’s Vineyard Summer Madness Festival came to a finale Sunday night with a performance by Lauryn Hill at the Featherstone Center For the Arts in Oak Bluffs. This year’s festival...

In 1978, Hugh Weisman and about 180 other runners jumped in a fleet of pickup trucks and vans at Beetlebung Corner in Chilmark. A hundred of them had professionally printed numbers; the other 80 or...

Just after 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, Jaime Greene stepped away from his throne behind the drum set that had been set up along the back edge of Memorial Wharf in Edgartown to make way for a special...

By the time the lights came up after the screening at the Chilmark Community Center last Wednesday of Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, most of the audience was in tears. The film tells the story of...

For 22 years now, the Vineyard Sound has taken their singing talent to venues and street corners all over the Island, singing tirelessly throughout the season. This year though, the a cappella group...

By the time Scott Nelson proposed hosting a pride event to the board of directors at The Yard in Chilmark, their yearly budget had already been set. While this would have deterred some, the directors...

Owen Suskind was a normal toddler as he approached his third birthday. Then, without warning, he vanished, lost in the depths of his own head. His parents, Ron and Cornelia Suskind, panicked,...