After a jolly family supper at my daughter's, I strolled home down a dirt road at twilight.

I joined a day trip run by the West Tisbury Congregational church to visit Penikese Island, an ancestral hunting land of the Wampanoag, 45 minutes by boat off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

Volunteer crew cuts a channel from Vineyard Sound to James Pond to help herring find spawning shelter.