Arts & Entertainment
Once again the Field Gallery in West Tisbury features artists of Barbara Wylan and Ron Gee.
Barbara Wylan was born in Providence, R.I. in 1933, and received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1955. Her home and studio are located on Cape Cod’s north side in Barnstable village. Primarily a landscape painter, Barbara works in pastel, acrylics, and watercolor. Her brother is popular Vineyard conservationist Bob Woodruff.
Landscapes at Dragonfly
Dragonfly Gallery’s Treasures to Preserve show, which runs through August 23, features artists Elizabeth Lockhart Taft and Ann Christensen. Their paintings reflect contemplation, intuition and analysis of landscapes, while each artist employs a different color palate and approach.
Refreshments will be served on Saturday and Sunday, August 15 and August 16.
Fresh Peaches at Church
The First Congregational Church of West Tisbury will hold its first annual peach festival on Saturday, August 15 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Fresh peach shortcakes with cream or ice cream, peach smoothies, and possibly delicious peach cobbler will all be offered and enjoyed on the church lawn. All are welcome to enjoy the peach season and to support the historic church’s fund-raising efforts.
For information, call 508-693-2842.
A regular summer Island impressario, Elizabeth Dembrowsky on Saturday debuts her first novel, My Monk, with two readings (1 and 6 p.m.) at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
The book notes say: “Harriet Zabrosky believed in love at first sight — until it happened to her. He became a monk. She moved back to America.”
THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC. By Richard Russo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 261 pages. $25.95.
O ne afternoon two friends happened to drop by my house. The first arrived in a little sports convertible. When the second showed up in his VW bus he walked inside and said, “It looks like a middle-aged meltdown out there.”
Sandy Pratt and Dolly Campbell, manager and assistant manager of the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Thrift Shop, are cutting prices in an attempt to clear as much merchandise from the store as they can. They need to make way for the yearly Chicken Alley Art Show.
The event, in its eighth year, was conceived by Olga Hirshhorn, whose late husband Joseph Hirshhorn founded the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
