For some, Jonah Rehak’s insect obsession is hard to understand. “My family hates the freezer,” he said. “There are just vials of June bugs, lady bugs, fireflies and moths everywhere.”

Chad Urmston, or as fans of Dispatch know him, Chadwick Stokes, pedaled a large orange tricycle through Owen Park in Vineyard Haven.

This year’s Battle in the Bluffs consisted of free youth camps and clinics for younger players and culminated on Saturday with an all-star game for elite college-aged athletes.

At the end of a Fourth of July celebration that spread across every corner of the Island from sunup to sundown, people and cheer filled the streets from Robinson Road to North Water street in the annual tradition of the Edgartown parade.

A group of 12 Vineyarders — politicians, writers, actors, ministers and boat captains — gathered in the pews of Edgartown’s Federated Church on Tuesday afternoon.

Summer on the Vineyard is a busy place, and Dr. Bruce Eckman, chair of the Summer Institute speaker series, knows it.