More than 40 volunteers took turns Tuesday morning, reciting sections of the over 10,000 word address that Frederick Douglass first delivered to the Rochester Sewing and Anti-Slavery Society on July 5, 1852.

Aquinnah and Oak Bluffs celebrated the Fourth in singular style, with small town parades this morning at the most western edge of the Island and in the Methodist Camp Ground.

An unusual problem has crept up during the slow start to summer for some Island workers: there’s not enough work.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center’s Summer Institute returns Thursday, July 6 with its first speaker of the season, Maryland's Democratic Congressman, Jamie Raskin.

In his lighthearted new book, Mocha Mott's co-owner Tim Dobel proposes a new set of rules for golf that he hopes will remind readers to maintain a sense of humor about the game.

A year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, taking away guaranteed abortion rights for millions of Americans, Martha’s Vineyard is on the verge of having medication abortion services available on-Island for the first time.