Arts & Entertainment
On Sunday, July 31, at 8 p.m. at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, David Crohan and friends will perform a benefit concert in support of Cherie Stannard, an “Island girl” who has spent all of her summers at her family cottage in the Camp Ground. In 2010, Ms. Stannard was left paralyzed from her shoulders down, the result of a car crash. After the accident, Cherie’s sister and brother quit their jobs and stayed at family-housing at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Ft.
Island Piano Man
Tonight, July 29, at 8 p.m. the documentary, Miracle in a Box — A Piano Reborn, will screen at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. The movie was directed by Oscar-winning documentarian John Korty and explores the life of a prize Steinway grand piano, the diverse group of workers who restore it, and the student competition to win it.
The overflow crowd gathered at the Chilmark Public Library to hear renowned Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday evening did not know it going in, but they were about to hear from an indicted felon.
An international criminal, if you will, for his offense was not committed in this country but in Italy.
In summary, the circumstances are these: Several years ago an Italian newspaper contacted him, seeking his views on an Italian judge who had freed a group of terrorists, on the basis that they were actually “freedom fighters.”
First In, Best Dressage
The Martha’s Vineyard Horse Council is offering a dressage show on August 14 and clinic with Bill Warren and Bill McMullin the day before, August 13.
On show day Bill McMullin will host Ride on the Side. Participants will sit with Bill during the show and he will talk about what is going on during each ride, what the judge is looking for, and how the movements are likely to be scored — promising a great opportunity to ask questions about riding tests! The cost for this is $35.
Celebrating Art and Life, the Della Way
The last Saturday in July has traditionally been called changeover weekend, the time in the summer when the July people leave and the August people arrive on the Island.
Rob Myers lay down his head at his kitchen table on a recent summer night, hot, frustrated but determined as ever to get the song right.
He listened intently to the sound coming from his computer.
“It’s an A to E flat,” he said to cofounding band member Elisha Wiesner, pausing the song. “Wait, is that a G?”
“What’s the first line of the song again?”
