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Down at the Menemsha docks on an early October evening, a regular is out casting into the harbor. He’s dressed for the occasion in red rubber boots and rain pants and a bright yellow rain jacket. His blue derby hat is decked with four pins — one with his derby number, two daily bluefish award pins, and one junior angler pin.
And of course five-year-old Grady Keefe of Menemsha is wearing his faded yellow life jacket.
There is always tough competition at the The Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby which these days attracts close to 3,000 fishermen. But amidst the awards and bragging rights there is also a tradition of generosity.
Where are all the kitten lovers who put their names on our wish list?
Vineyard high school seniors Isabella El-Deiry and Jacob Lawrence recently traveled to Boston to discover how Massachusetts leaders support young p
On Saturday, Oct. 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Morning Glory Farm hosts its ninth annual pumpkin festival. There will be live music by the Flying Elbows, hay rides, children’s games, face painting, a hay maze, pony rides, farm tours, the trebuchet (aka pumpkin catapult), food and a pumpkin carving contest.
What if, in one evening, you could be blessed by Godfather of Soul, disciplined by Sergeant Pepper, get some Satisfaction, sail the Sloop John B. and Feel Like a Natural Woman? Would you do it?