Joyce’s Way, by Island author and storyteller Susan Klein, is the true story of the late Joyce Brigish.

The desert set the scene for The Fabulists’ hour-long show­—a production filled with improv, one-liners and lots of help from the audience.

The preparations are almost done and the crowds ready to be welcomed to the 157th Agricultural Fair and Livestock Show.

At a discussion organized by the Advancement Project, panelists noted that the event fell on the fourth anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager fatally shot during a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

At sundown the gingerbread houses of the Camp Ground will glow with the light of thousands of lanterns, part of a summertime tradition in Oak Bluffs.

A multifaith, multiracial panel at the West Tisbury Congregrational Church dug deeply into the topic, Bridging the Deep Divides: a Conversation on Faith.