Art and Music

You know it’s summer in Edgartown when you hear the music ringing out from the porch of the Eisenhauer Gallery. This is the gallery’s 10th year, and it continues its summer concert series with the Mike Benjamin Band’s return to the courtyard on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Gilded Age Gardener

Landscape historian, author and Vineyard gardener Judith Tankard offers a look at the life and work of Beatrix Farrand, one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s, at the Polly Hill Arboretum on Wednesday, June 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Born into a prominent New York family, Ms. Farrand eschewed the social life of the gilded age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants.

The Union Chapel opens this Sunday with the Rev. Dr. Dorothy Watson Tatem as the guest preacher. This is her third visit and the beginning of the 140th season of Union Chapel. The chapel is located in Oak Bluffs at the south end of Kennebec and Circuit avenues. An organ prelude by Garrett Brown begins at 9:40 a.m.; the service is at 10 a.m.

The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing will be offering a weeklong workshop from July 25 to 30. There will be morning and afternoon workshops devoted to studying technique and editing manuscripts, plus evening readings, receptions and panel discussions.

University creative writing teachers, literary journal editors and published authors will be on hand to help students move from conception to published story, book or poem.

Integrated Health Center of Vineyard Haven welcomes back Dr. Iris Gold, acupuncturist and natural medicine doctor. Using acupuncture, herbs, nutritional supplements and bio-identical hormone replacement, Dr. Gold specializes in women’s health issues, especially menopause and fertility. This summer she will be introducing a very effective and rapid weight management program that she has been using in her practice in California. She also extensively treats all types of pain problems, adrenal imbalances, headaches and fatigue.