Sitting in her customary spot, next to her husband, Jay, on the top bench of the bleachers behind home plate, Doris Clark is a sort of mother hen to the Sharks, the Vineyard’s new baseball team, who brought the Futures Collegiate Baseball League to the Island for the first season this summer. The season is now over, but while it lasted, she was there at pretty much every game, cheering the players on, calling to them by name.

There were plenty of firefighters, but the only thing burning on Wednesday night was the grill, as the volunteers of the Chilmark Fire Department got together to throw a Backyard Bash at the Chilmark Community Center.

It was a family affair. Kids ran around while their parents and grandparents devoured burgers and hot dogs, caught up with neighbors and old friends, and listened to The New Strangers bust out some tunes.

Can elation come from elevation? In an age of TSA pat-downs that go further than most first dates, it’s refreshing to simply climb onto a plane in the sunny outdoors on a midsummer day. Even if the flight requires a parachute.

At the Katama Airfield, Classic Aviators offers flights ranging from 15 minutes to an hour and will take you anywhere on the Island. Whether you want an airborne view of Chappaquiddick and Edgartown or are yearning to see the Cliffs of Aquinnah from above, Mike Creato can fly you there.

The Tabernacle wore a dress of paintings, collages and photographs, hung on a wire mesh, yesterday as it played host to artists of all ages entered in the 53rd annual All-Island Art Show.

In an ever more digitized world, Mitzi Pratt and Flip Scipio still work by hand. On separate levels of their two-story Moshup Trail studio, these artisans rely not on machines but on their knowledge, skill and experience. Though their mediums are different — Ms. Pratt is a bookbinder and Mr. Scipio makes guitars — their work sometimes overlaps, each feeding the other’s.