Change is planned for the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and the museum wants community feedback. That was the thinking behind a series of community forums recently held in Chilmark, Vineyard Haven, West Tisbury, Edgartown and Oak Bluffs.

Speaking to a crowd of two dozen people attending the Tuesday night meeting at the Federated Church in Edgartown, museum executive director David Nathans thanked everyone for coming. “It’s important to all of us that we get feedback from you. We really, really want feedback,” he said.

At first glance, a barrel of wood shavings outside a cabinet shop may not seem like a big deal. But to Bill Bishop, wood shavings bring back memories of growing up in Danbury, Conn. Behind the house he grew up in there was a cabinet shop. “I used to watch the guys make stuff in there,” he said. “The first time, I think I was about six or seven, I remember watching a man collect saw dust and shaving curls and the bags would overflow. I couldn’t comprehend how he could make so much. So I started watching him through the window. It was the first inclination that I wanted to be a carpenter.”

Althea Freeman-Miller looks to plants to describe her journey as an artist. A morning glory represents her childhood on the Vineyard, a black-eyed Susan the person she was in college, and a tree her future.

Metaphor extends to her family, too, but it isn’t confined to botany. An iris and an anchor symbolize her mother, and a bird with a heart as a body captures her father. Her inner purpose is a beaming candle.

Twenty miles per hour. That’s how fast Paul Pimentel has to drive in order for his 2012 Nissan Leaf to make a sound.

Phil Regan always knew he would be an architect. “I liked to draw,” he said. “I had always been in art classes and I liked those classes the most.”

A drafting course at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School was the first crisp, clean line on Mr. Regan’s own career blueprint.

“I knew this was it. I wanted to study architecture,” he said.

She took her first antibiotic at the age of 19.

“I never really got sick,” Katina L. Makris told an audience of about 30 people on August 18 at the Chilmark Community Church.

This was all before she was bitten by a tick and later diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Ms. Makris’s inspirational talk was part of Bite Back for a Cure, a day on Martha’s Vineyard dedicated to finding a cure.