Historian and Wampanoag tribal elder Linda Coombs recently published Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. On Monday, she spoke at Aquinnah town hall about her book and her career.

The Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival transformed parts of the Island last weekend into culinary and oenological destinations.

Artists, musicians and cooks will be out in full force at the season’s First Friday event in Vineyard Haven on June 7.

On Saturday the community will gather at Featherstone Center for the Arts to celebrate Claudia Taylor as the new poet laureate of the Vineyard. The program begins at 4 p.m.

Birds, butterflies and horseshoe crabs flocked to Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary Saturday for the second annual Eco-Drag show.

The Oak Bluffs select board rejected the Healey Square restaurant’s plans to expand its outdoor seating this week, capping debate that has been going on since April.