In their workaday world they help other people create memories, but along the way they have created enough memories of their own to fill a book. And the children! V. Jaime Hamlin has four boys, three of them triplets; Patrie Grace has three girls and two boys. Jaime is a caterer whose reputation as a cook is beyond the pale. Patrie is the stalwart wedding planner and events coordinator. Their businesses are separate but intertwined. Exactly like their lives.

Interviews by Julia Rappaport

Were it not for the smell, you might mistake the light, fibrous, grayish stuff in Bob Woodruff’s shed for the material they make egg cartons from.

But the low-tide aroma is the giveaway. What we have here is dried slime. Or, more correctly, dried algae of the species Enteromorpha clathrata, which this summer grew in unprecedented profusion over much of the Edgartown Great Pond.

Michael Chester, the newly-appointed commissioner of education for Massachusetts, laid out his vision for schools at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center this morning for an audience which included the new principal of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, Stephen Nixon.

Meanwhile, approximately 2,280 Vineyard students will have their first day at school this week; a sign, argues superintendent of schools Dr. James H. Weiss, that the sharp decline in high school enrollment will stabilize over the next decade.