Nature & Science
On a trail that cut through the heart of the Vineyard, 120 hikers and six dogs set out Saturday for the 26th annual cross-Island hike. The event is hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank.
We’ve got moonless nights ahead.
On a blustery day, Richard Skidmore, keeper of the Gay Head Light, and Len Butler, chairman of the lighthouse advisory committee, took a walk over to the clay cliffs.
Chuck Fisher, who served as deputy shellfish constable for five years, will succeed retiring constable David Grunden.
If it doesn’t look like a duck, walk like a duck, or quack like a duck, then it must not be a duck.
This migration season seems to never end.
Almanac
A comprehensive guide to weather and tides on the Island.
Vineyard Gardener
I guess this past week weather-wise is called a January thaw. We did not really experience it the last several years as December was unseasonably warm.
Farm & Field
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.