This year’s Friends of Family Planning art show and sale, an anchor Memorial Day weekend event for some three decades, will be the last.

When the Minnesingers walked on stage Sunday the audience applauded. When the red curtain rose, alumni of all ages took the stage.

A large crowd gathered Sunday for the dedication of a small chapel at Featherstone Center for the Arts. The chapel is a gift from the Rev. John Schule, retired pastor of the Federated Church.

This weekend, the Minnesingers will be joined by nearly 100 returning alumni in two concerts at the Performing Arts Center to celebrate the groups fiftieth season.

For two years, West Tisbury resident Marc Favreau combed through images and countless other sources to create his first book, Crash: A History of the Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America, a work of young adult nonfiction.