Arts & Entertainment
Inside Gossamer Gallery last Tuesday, Joan Merry pulled out a framed portrait to demonstrate the dire economic situation in Zimbabwe: the colorful image of a man sitting on a chair was painted on a paper “canvas” made from $25 million Zimbabwe dollar notes stitched together.
Island Musicians Play Hospice Benefit
Girls Are Great
This Saturday, August 29, the YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts will host “Girls are Great! Let’s Celebrate!,” a cocktail reception to benefit YWCA girls after-school and summer programs from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Farm Neck Café, 1 Farm Neck Way, Oak Bluffs.
Tickets to the reception are $125 per person and include: food, open bar, and entertainment by violinist Nora St. Martin and vocalist Tanisha Sullivan. Tickets can be purchased at ywcasema.org. For details, call 508-999-3255.
Fine Finish for Featherstone Festival
Featherstone’s Festival of Poetry’s very successful summer season is wrapping up with a reading by Naomi Shihab Nye, an award-winning Palestinian-American poet whose works have garnered multiple awards over the years. Fellow poet William Stafford said of Ms. Nye, “Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life.”
Award-winning author Linda Kenney Miller, who wrote Beacon on the Hill, spent her childhood summers at Oak Bluffs. Her grandfather, John A. Kenney, vacationed on the Vineyard ever since 1913 when his wife’s family first bought the Kenney cottage on Huntington avenue.
Chris Fischer’s well-worn Ford pickup is a familiar sight on the winding roads up-Island. Its rusted bed is piled with vegetable peelings; turnip greens, muddied onion skins, brilliant green bean shells are scattered among gardening tools and a hodgepodge of things farm-related. It is an early Saturday morning and Mr. Fischer, a private chef and Island native, is driving between the farm stands, refrigerators and gardens of Chilmark in search of ingredients for lunch.
