Multifaceted artist and muscian Kate Taylor, known by most as being the sister of famous singer James Taylor, sits for a portrait in her living room in Chilmark, surrounded by her artwork and artwork by her family. The large painting by Stan Murphy behind Kate is a portrait of her and her father Dr. Isaac Taylor.

Hiroshima bomb survivor Hiroko Nakamura (Thomson) admires the gardens at Polly Hill Arboretum on Thursday, May 23, 2019. Nakamura was just a baby when the atomic bomb Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima.

Janet Messineo casts a line off a jetty in Vineyard Haven on Friday, August 23, 2019. Ahead of the 74th M.V. Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, which lasts over five weeks in September and October, Messineo was featured on the September cover of Vineyard Visitor, a magazine geared towards tourists. Messineo is a master fisherman, who just came out with a book titled "Casting into the Light," is an Island fishing legend.

Adam Epstein, CEO of Innovation Arts & Entertainment, oversees the transformation of Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven into the Beach Road Weekend festival site on Wedesday, August 7, 2019. Over the past year, Epstein has attended dozens of town selectmen meetings, held forums, and has even given out his personal cell phone number to Islanders in order to make the Island's first ever music festival come to fruitition.

Marc Fournier prunes a tree at Mytoi Gardens, clearing it of dead branches on July 11, 2019. This spring, Fournier started as horticulturalist and arborist at The Trustees of Reservations’ Japanese-style garden, Mytoi, on Chappaquiddick.

Marie-Louise Rouff, 89, originally from Luxembourg, works in her vegetable garden at her West Tisbury home on April 16, 2019. “The garden became crucial for survival during the war. It was 1940 when the Germans came, I was 10 years-old and they didn’t leave until 1944. My father didn’t collaborate with the Germans so he was kicked out of his job and we had a family of seven. We grew a lot of food...The garden was the place where we got food.”

Daniel Waters poses for a portrait on March 29, 2019. Waters is the first Islander to be featured in the new MV Times' series: "Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People," which highlights seemingly ordinary Island residents' extraordinary stories.

Richard Paradise, founder and executive director of Martha's Vineyard Film Society, ready to celebrate its 20th birthday.

Chadwick Stokes of the band Dispatch plays guitar on the dock at Owen Park in Vineyard Haven on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Stokes and his band will play at Beach Road Weekend music festival on the Vineyard in August.

Angela Prout and Gavin Smith pose for the cover of The Local, a supplement MV Times publication. The cover was titled, “Vineyard Gothic" recreating the classic painting, in order to encompass the Fall issue: wedding season and fishing season on the Island.

Metalworker Gabe Bellebuono stands with two of his bird sculptures in his workshop at Barney Zeitz's studio. Bellebuono, a recent MVRHS graduate who has been under Barney Zeitz's wing for many years now, already has a well established metalworking business.

Rick Bausman's band, Tracing Infinity, clockwise from left: Anthony Esposito, Hudson Bausman, Brian Weiland, and Rick Bausman.

Jennifer Passafiume and Cooper Akavian, 6, swim during an afterschool swim session at the YMCA on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. Passafiume is a dedicated multisport athlete who has competed in international triathlons and is a certified U.S. Masters Swimming program instructor.

Internationally known hip hop dancer Amirah Sackett performs on stage at the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Sackett combines dance and her Muslim religion to spread a message of peace and unity across nationalities.

Josey Kirkland, the education coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown, Mass., spends her days teaching various groups and kids about wildlife.

Singer Sabrina Luening poses for a portrait and sings on stage at Alex's Place Teen Center at the YMCA of Martha's Vineyard on Friday, March 19, 2019, for a feature about her and an upcoming performance.

From left, siblings Peter, Heidi and Frank Dunkl laugh together outside their home in Chilmark. The Dunkls built their family home by hand.

Selma Frank, 101, sits in a rocking chair in her living room on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. Frank, who is blind, is the oldest person living in Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard.

Island artist Washington Ladesma shapes a vase on his pottery wheel at his home studio in Oak Bluffs.

Vera Shorter, 95, has been a NAACP member and civil rights advocate on and off Martha’s Vineyard for more than 40 years.

Ruth Epstein, who recently turned 93, tries on a hat from her collection at her home in Oak Bluffs. Epstein has collected over 150 hats from all over the world, dating from 1850 to 1950.

Shipwright Ted Box, who built the scow “Seeker” from the keel up and launched it last month, sits atop a 65-foot length of old growth white pine cut in Cornwall Connecticut, taking a break from hewing its great spars on the harbor’s edge in Vineyard Haven. Slowly he is shaping it from oblong to octagonal with a 16-inch circular saw.

Martha’s Vineyard Film Center Executive Director Richard Paradise in his natural habitat on stage at the theatre in Vineyard Haven.

Hugh Taylor, owner and operator of the Outermost Inn in Aquinnah.

Farmer and artist Allen Whiting in his makeshift barn studio at his home in West Tisbury. Whiting was the subject of a documentary, “A Painter Who Farms,” which was featured in the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.

John Anderson stands with the Flying Horses at the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the oldest working carousel in the United States. Anderson is the repairman of the horses, who meticulously paints and repairs the historic horses.