Arts & Entertainment
Living Local Harvest Festival Saturday Events
Panel Forums
9 to 9:45 a.m. Waste, Recycling and Composting:
Cleaning Up Our Act
10 to 10:45 a.m. Home Energy Options: What’s Right for You?
11 to 11:45 a.m. Thinking Big About Island Energy:
What’s Right for Us?
12 to 12:45 p.m. Increasing Island Food Production:
Connecting Farmers to Land
1 to 1:45 p.m. Island Fisheries:
Dennis Lehane took a piece of Boston history, the stuff of legend in the city’s neighborhoods for nearly 90 years, and has written it as an epic no
The Federated Church of Edgartown will hold a free movie night on Thursday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Parish House on South Summer street. The film being shown is The Road to Galveston, based on a true story and starring Cicely Tyson. The movie is the story of a woman who loses her husband and is forced to make a living for herself. She chooses to provide care for Alzheimers patients, and the story is both heartwarming and inspiring.
SIDE EFFECTS: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial. By Alison Bass. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 260 pages. $24.95.
Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil — all antidepressants frequently prescribed for adolescents — have their downsides as well as their upsides. In this book, Alison Bass, formerly the Boston Globe’s mental health reporter and a longtime seasonal resident of Edgartown, tells stories of how their downsides have frequently been kept from those to whom the antidepressants are being given.
Vineyard Dance Classes
Vineyard Dance will begin fall classes on Monday, Sept. 29, at the Nathan Mayhew Seminars campus on North William street in Vineyard Haven.
Classes for adults and teens are offered in ballet, modern dance/modern jazz, and floor barre. Children may enroll in creative movement, modern dance, and ballet.
For details, call instructor Kathy Joyce Costanza at 508-693-2257.
Motorcycle Rally
The second annual Antique Motorcycle Rally will take place at noon on Sunday in the Menemsha parking lot. Collectors of all makes and models of antique motorcycles are invited. Last year, 200 people attended to view 22 motorcycles. Rain date is Sunday, Sept. 28.
