Grand Illumination Night 2026 Photos
← All galleries 29 plates · photographed on Martha’s Vineyard
Grand Illumination Night 2026, August 19 in the Oak Bluffs campground: the sing filling the Tabernacle before dark, the first lanterns going up, and the porch-by-porch stroll that has closed the campground summer since 1869.
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Plate 01 The 1879 Tabernacle glowing under its lanterns once the lighting begins -
Plate 02 Benches full in the Tabernacle before dark, waiting for the sing to start -
Plate 03 Lanterns and string lights on a cottage porch, people out on the lawn after dark -
Plate 04 Paper parasols, lanterns and a cloud of soap bubbles on a cottage balcony at night -
Plate 05 Soft light in the Campground: cottage gardens, a picket fence and a paper lantern -
Plate 06 The banner over the Tabernacle entrance: Grand Illumination tonight -
Plate 07 This Little Light of Mine on the big screen as the sing warms up -
Plate 08 A band on the Tabernacle stage, with MV All Island Band written by hand on a timpani in front -
Plate 09 MV All Island Band written by hand on a timpani on the Tabernacle stage -
Plate 10 The full band playing on the Tabernacle stage, a flag hung at one side -
Plate 11 Lanterns lit across the Tabernacle while the band plays on the stage -
Plate 12 Two percussionists behind the timpani on stage during the band concert -
Plate 13 The conductor brings the woodwinds in -
Plate 14 The Tabernacle ringed in lanterns after dark -
Plate 15 The Bell Buoy cottage of 1867 glowing on every level -
Plate 16 Paper and tasseled lanterns along a lit porch, more porches glowing down the row -
Plate 17 Painted lanterns crowding a single porch beam -
Plate 18 Star lanterns over the 1867 doorway -
Plate 19 Parasols and painted globes on a balcony rail -
Plate 20 A six-sided painted lantern with red tassels, lit from within -
Plate 21 Chrysanthemum lantern detail -
Plate 22 Globes in yellow, red and violet against the dark -
Plate 23 A hand-decorated paper lantern with a purple drawing and two first names in marker -
Plate 24 A hot-air balloon lantern among the globes -
Plate 25 Red tasseled lanterns and painted red parasols filling one porch -
Plate 26 Parasol and painted lantern, lit like a stage set -
Plate 27 Even the Beetle gets decorated: a car full of glowing lanterns -
Plate 28 Jellyfish lanterns hung across a motor yacht in Oak Bluffs Harbor -
Plate 29 A phone on a gimbal filming a lantern-lit cottage on Illumination Night
