If you’re out driving here on the Island, there’s a good chance you’ve seen him.

In the late ‘90s, the Martha’s Vineyard Touchdown Club thought professional wrestling would be a popular fundraiser for the high school football team. The Yankee Pro Wrestling organization provided the talent.

This book is a labor of love — of Lake Michigan, and, in particular, of North Manitou Island, today part of a national park but for generations before that, an island for farming, fishing and vacationing.

As a deaf student, I couldn’t wait to explore an Island that was once teeming with people just like me.

On Monday morning, the boom of shotguns echoed across the Island landscape, signaling the start of the two-week deer shotgun hunting season.

I recently helped “process," which is to say butcher, a Vineyard deer.