Arts & Entertainment
Wailing for Hunger
As a prize-winning sociologist and Harvard professor of education, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot possesses the curriculum vitae of one of the most successful women alive — in that achievement-oriented way that we worship in the ambitious classes of America. And yet she radiates the serenity and contemplative qualities of a genuine holy woman.
Operation Solomon, when more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were transported to Israel over an intense 36-hour period in May 1991, was one of the most dramatic rescues of modern times. On August 27 at 7 p.m., the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center will host a panel discussion featuring two women with firsthand knowledge of that fraught, but ultimately successful effort to fulfill the longing of Ethiopian Jews to “return to Jerusalem” after thousands of years of separation from mainstream Judaism.
The Big Bang
Tonight marks the unofficial grand finale of Vineyard summer: the Oak Bluffs fireworks, a dazzling display of light and noise that fills Ocean Park to capacity every summer.
The first-ever Martha’s Vineyard dog parade will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 23 in Ocean Park, to welcome the four-legged member of the First Family, Bo, the Portuguese water dog.
The parade marshal will be the handsome yellow labrador Chappy Homlish, whose family won the honor at the Possible Dreams Auction.
Memory House: Real Talk, Real Pie
In the time it takes to bake a pie — and much less time than it takes to write a college entrance essay — a mother and daughter can weave themselves together with a lifetime of loose ends.
In Kathleen Tolan’s sparkling and delicately sharpened script for Memory House, this seems the only way to do it: just spread it out, mix it up, knead it, heat things up and see if you get burned or something sweet at the finish.
