Arts & Entertainment
Family to Family
On Friday, Dec. 12, the Serving Hands Program and the Family-to-Family Program hand out Christmas dinners. As in the past, the group will provide all the ingredients for a wonderful holiday.
Distribution to income-qualified Islander will take place at the First Baptist Church parish house, on William street in Vineyard Haven from 2 p.m. Please do not arrive early, as volunteers will be packing the bags and boxes.
Vineyard Haven native Marshall Pratt recently sold just over 20 photographs to the Boston Athenaeum, an achievement made all the more impressive by the fact that the photographer is just over 20 years old.
Mr. Pratt is a junior at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he studies photography. The work acquired by the Athenaeum is a collection of prints that depicts areas of Greater Boston that have become derelict or otherwise suffered the effects of poverty, cultural isolation and neglect.
The Vineyard Playhouse invites everyone to a seasonal gathering for drinks and good cheer, with a small awards ceremony, on Sunday Dec. 7 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the playhouse on Church street in Vineyard Haven.
The playhouse will be offering soul-warming libations in the form of tempting treats, fortified wines and a selection of fine teas. Entertainment will be provided.
In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. His staff includes Mott, the big-brotherly general manager, and Quincas, a cute Brazilian. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway.
Daniel Waters will read new and old poems, formal and informal, at a free reading on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
Also known as DAW, the prize-winning Mr. Waters’ work has appeared in the Vineyard Gazette and Yankee Magazine, and is regularly broadcast on the Cape and Islands National Public Radio. He has published several books of poetry and is poet laureate of West Tisbury.
Mystery Reprint
Thomas Dresser is pleased to announce that his recent book, Mystery on the Vineyard, will be reprinted by the History Press. The initial run of Mystery on the Vineyard, which debuted in April of this year, has sold out; hence the reprint. More information is available at a new Web site Mr. Dresser recently launched, thomasdresser.com. E-mail comments or questions to [email protected].
