It’s early on a foggy morning and Alison Shaw is perched in her bright yellow kayak, wearing a blue life vest and snapping photos with her Nikon D810 of in the middle of Sengekontacket Pond.

It’s a misty May morning in Chilmark and while other farmers race up and down South Road, Mitchell Posin doesn’t seem to have an agenda for the day.

It is Wednesday, which means pizza day at The West Tisbury School. Head cook Jenny DeVivo put on her hat and Mötley Crüe style headband. This is not your typical hairnet or apron lunch lady.

Donald Herman began coaching football on the Vineyard in 1988. This year will be his last as head coach, and during halftime at Friday night's homecoming game he will be honored by the football community, past and present.

Nothing can stop Roberta Morgan. Not even her husband Jimmy, who has suggested that she might want to pull the car over. It’s early July, early morning and the Morgans are driving down-Island for their daily coffee klatch at Humphrey’s.

On a brisk late April morning, Rick Karney stands at a large sink filled with warm water and 24 Pyrex glass meatloaf dishes filled with filtered salt water and quahaugs. As executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group, Rick is at the leading edge of ongoing work to keep the Island’s abundant shellfish population healthy and productive.