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After three days of uncertainty, the Vineyard celebrated Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
After a tumultuous week, it's time for a moment of zen.
American poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote: To-day, alike are great and small, The nameless and the known; My palace is the people's hall, The ballot-box, my throne! And we can't agree more this year.
Winter is just a promise, but it makes us rush to savor the last bits of autumn before the ground turns hard and the trees turn bare and the snow flies.
Now that November is here, everything is right here, right now, and in the quieter pace that comes to the Island in this twilight of the autumn season, we can find some portion of the peace that is evident in the natural world around us.
On All Hallow's Eve the Agricultural Society fairgrounds turned spooky on Saturday morning as the last farmers’ market of the season went out with ghosts and ghoulies shopping for Island produce.
Trick or treaters may not be roaming Island streets this year, but porches and Main streets are decked out for the holiday.
In October birds begin migrating; some are summer resident species leaving for winter homes, while others are migrating down the coast.
Arrowhead Farm on Indian Hill in West Tisbury was purchased by the land bank, with a plan to preserve the iconic property as a working farm in perpetuity.
The rhythms in the Island community echo the new melody in the natural world around us.
Familiar places become wondrously new in the Island light of October.
October on the Island is autumn through and through, and here, on the far shore of another summer, October unfolds in its own sweet time.
There was a fair amount of grumbling this week as fishermen battled riled up seas and lots of seaweed left over from the holiday weekend wind.
End of the day in Aquinnah and the waves sparkle, while Moshup Beach reflects the colors of the sunset in its clay cliffs.
Our perspective on Columbus may have changed, but our conviction has only grown stronger that, at this point in the Vineyard year, we definitely are ready for a holiday.
The talk of the Martha's Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby in the third week of the tournament has been the high winds and cooling temperatures.