For four days the Agricultural Fair lured Islanders and visitors from the beaches and golf courses to West Tisbury for livestock shows, tractor pulls, rides, games and food galore.

Students of Rosie’s Theater Kids, which connects youths from New York city with performing arts, have spent a week at Vineyard Arts Project.

Inaugural season for the renovated Strand and Capawock theatres in Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven is off to a solid start.

President Obama and his family wrap up a quiet 17-day vacation on the Vineyard this weekend. The Obamas are scheduled to depart the Island sometime on Sunday after a vacation full of golf with a handful of beach and dinner outings and a lot of downtime at their vacation home in a secluded part of Chilmark.

In 1991, Pam Benjamin founded the arts camp Sense of Wonder Creations to teach children creativity and also how to love and care for the world surrounding them. A quarter-century later that same spirit holds true.

Monday night’s rehearsal for the Island Theatre Workshop’s summer production of The King and I began with Lee Fierro and director Kevin Ryan gathering the cast to give them feedback. Amidst the technical discussions typical of this sort of assembly were kind words from both. At one point Ms. Fierro even became teary as she complimented nine-year-old Zachary Mathias on his performance in the first scene the night before.