As peripatetic musicians, David Wax and his wife Suz Slezak, who form the core duo of the David Wax Museum, know a thing or two about being good guests.

History is about the past, but that’s no reason it can’t live in the present moment too.

This year’s theme for the Art of Conservation contest sponsored by the Vineyard Conservation Society was Discovery.

There is a good reason the Martha’s Vineyard Museum has far more shipwreck artifacts than it can display in its new exhibit Shipwrecks! Stories from Beneath the Sea. It’s because we have a lot of shipwrecks around here.

With a generous double program that traveled easily from sacred music and opera to jazz and Lady Gaga, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Minnesingers displayed their versatility with two spring concerts over the weekend.