Arts & Entertainment
Emperor of Ocean Park author, Yale law professor and seasonal Islander Stephen L. Carter will discuss Why Democracy Needs Books, the subject of his next book, on Sunday, July 18 at 2 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
The event, with a reception following, is presented by the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
The feature film Ajami, a drama nominated for this year’s best foreign film Oscar, will screen on Sunday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
Ajami is set on the streets of Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood, a turbulent melting pot of conflicting cultures and politics. The story is told through the eyes of the city’s Israelis and Palestinians, wealthy and poor. At the center is a dramatic series of events which play out amid the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors.
Spirituals Enlightenment
The songs sung by slaves to send messages to each other will be decoded by the teaching choir led by Jim Thomas, president of the U.S. Slave Song Project, on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. The concert, Songs from the Field: The Mystery of Spirituals, with guest Lavert Stuart, is family-friendly. Tickets are $15.
With tears in his eyes, an emotional Fred B. (Ted) Morgan Jr. stood at a podium to thank his number one supporter through the past 65 years of his life. The hundreds of people gathered to honor Mr. Morgan with a 2010 lifetime achievement award from the Edgartown Library Foundation sat silently as the guest of honor graciously acknowledged his wife, Floss, for seeing him through thick and thin for the better part of a century.
The United States will likely remain stuck in the war in Afghanistan well past President Obama’s nominated date next year for beginning to pull troops out, one of the architects of the President’s Afghan policy says.
In an address on the Vineyard on Thursday night, Bruce Riedel, the former CIA officer and current senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who chaired last year’s review of policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, gave a generally pessimistic assessment of the state of the Afghan war.
Landscape painter Curtis Hanson will be in the Christina Gallery in Edgartown on Thursday, July 15, for a reception from 6 until 8 p.m. alongside an exhibition of his recent oil paintings of New England and Thailand.
