Fresh from their Austrian tour last month, the Minnesingers take over the stage at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center this weekend for two concerts, Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Fresh from their Austrian tour last month, the Minnesingers take over the stage at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center this weekend for two concerts, Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Shortly after the Edgartown parade stepped off on July Fourth the sky turned gray and the rain showers began. Watchers took shelter on porches or beneath leafy trees but most stood their ground, cheering and waving and smiling.
It was all about the children in the Camp Ground's Kids Parade . . . also those young at heart, and the four legged variety too. Marchers stepped off at 9:45 a.m.
Despite the morning downpour of rain and then fog, the Polar Bears gathered at Inkwell Beach in a friendship circle for their traditional Fourth of July holiday swim in Nantucket Sound.
The Vineyard joined the rest of the country in celebration of the nation’s 247th birthday. There is something wonderfully unifying about Fourth of July on the Vineyard, about sentiments that make people a little more mindful of the values of community and family and friendship.
For those on the western edge of the Vineyard, the small but mighty Aquinnah Fourth of July parade tops them all.
This weekend ushers in the month of July, the advent of which comes almost as a surprise. July? Already? We're just past our cool spring, and we're not completely prepared for July. Give us another few weeks to get ready.
Fireworks, barbecues, road races, and lobster rolls are on the agenda and parades are planned at both ends of the Island. Banners and bunting have been hung and flags are waving as the Vineyard welcomes one of the busiest days of the year.
This summer the Martha's Vineyard Museum pays tribute to when a group of librarians and amateur Yankee historians gathered to create the Dukes County Historical Society.
Shadows dapple up-Island roads. Leaves whisper in early breezes. Tree limbs reach across roads to tenderly touch. The air is fresh. Webs of dew on the grass sparkle in the sun. An occasional rabbit sniffs curiously at a roadside wildflower. It's June on the Vineyard.
June has made it to our shores, even though the cool wet weather seems more suitable for May. Despite the weather, the nesting season is well underway, with many of our common nesting birds now fledging their first brood.
As per tradition, Camp Jabberwocky counselors dressed in high style to greet campers at the ferry. After hugs and hellos they all headed up to camp to begin a busy month of activities, beach trips and a summer play.
June can be a bit maddening because it brings on so many aspects of the season, but still it is a month on the margin of summer. Then comes July, and we know the wild ride of summer is on.
Today was the last day of classes for most Island schools. Cheers echoed from every classroom as the noon bell rang at the Edgartown School, signaling the end of another school year and the start of summer vacation.
This year is the second annual Juneteenth Jubilee celebration on the Vineyard, held for the first time as an Island-wide event last year. The theme this year is Free as the Wind.
Islanders, day-trippers and summer residents all found their way to Oak Bluffs a day later due to rain on Saturday for the annual Harborfest.
Vineyarders made their way to Tisbury Wharf this weekend to tour the historic Amistad, a replica of the historic vessel that was the setting of a slave revolt in 1839. The ship is the centerpiece for events remembering and celebrating Juneteenth.