The Martha's Vineyard Times M.V. Museum hosts new series encompassing Island themes The themes include Belonging, Voyaging, Fishing, Escaping, Farming, Creating, and Changing. — Courtesy M.V. Museum The museum is hosting a virtual series of talks to explore each theme. — Courtesy M.V. Museum The history of Martha’s Vineyard has unfolded over thousands of years, across hundreds of square miles of land and sea, and in dozens of communities across the Island. “It is not a single story, but many interwoven stories,” explains a press release from the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Inspired by the exhibition “One Island, Many Stories,” the M.V. Museum invites the community to participate in a monthly virtual program featuring Bow Van Riper, research librarian at the museum, in conversation with a different Islander whose work engages with one of the exhibition’s themes: Escaping, changing, voyaging, belonging, creating, fishing, and farming. This live and lively discussion series will explore how the Island’s past shapes its inhabitants’ present-day lives, and how understanding that continuity (and change) might help navigate the future of the Island.