A familiar face on the Vineyard Haven waterfront, Steve Besse, 60, of Vineyard Haven and Guilford, Conn., was this year’s winner of the 32nd annual George Moffett Race on Saturday. Forty sailboats raced off East Chop in Nantucket Sound.

Mr. Besse sailed a 40-foot boat called Apres, a J/120. He was not just the first, but in a handicap race, he also was the first to cross the line. Mr. Besse is noted for being the first and last windsurfer to sail around the Island.

More fishermen are coming: the Vineyard community, sportsmen and local businesses are pooling their resources to greet the Monday arrival of five men and two women who were recently seriously injured during military service. The veterans are coming to fish the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, now entering its second week.

What better opportunity to bring out the best of the Vineyard than to share a local passion with those who have served their country?

Have you ever wondered what is the story behind a favorite pop music tune? Every song has a writer, and they aren’t often in the foreground. The stories behind the songs can be far more interesting if told by the writer — and that is the idea behind the first ever Martha’s Vineyard Songwriters’ Festival this weekend.

The two-night event will showcase the writer-performers. The festival opens tonight at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, and there will be a second show tomorrow night at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs.

The Grey Barn and Farm of Chilmark began as an idea in Dubai, the ostensible city of the future in the United Arab Emirates. And now owners Eric and Molly Glasgow are edging toward the day when they will have created a viable dairy farm on the former Rainbow Farm property in Chilmark that they purchased from David Douglas earlier this summer.

More than $300,000 in prizes are stashed and ready for the 64th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, which begins at 12:01 Sunday morning and runs until 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17.

And this year if you catch a big one, watch for the tweets. Derby chairman Greg Skomal confirmed yesterday that updates will be sent out on Twitter this year. Yesterday’s tweet? “Windy, windy windy . . . but reports of albies in THICK. Boats hooking dozens/day. Final weigh station setup Sat. Derby starts @ 12:01 AM Sun!!”

Sometime between the last glacier age 18,000 years ago and the beginning of recorded history, a huge meteor may have landed on Chappaquiddick. And Mike L. Jackson, 40, and his older brother, Dennis L. Jackson, 42, of Edgartown, believe they have evidence.

The two men believe they have recovered pieces of the fallen meteor from the shore of Cape Pogue Pond. They have shared the news of their collection with David A. Nellis, 74, a retired University of Massachusetts college professor of geology, mineralogy and petrology who lives in Scituate.