Arts & Entertainment
The Farm Institute invites Island residents and visitors for family and community chores on Saturday, July 26, at 9 a.m. with author Norman Bridwell reading two of his beloved Clifford The Big Red Dog stories at noon.
Lend a hand big or small in collecting eggs, milking the goat, feeding and caring for the cows, sheep, pigs and baby chicks, and there are garden chores to enjoy as well. Dress for the weather — and to get dirty.
This is a free community event and no registration or experience is necessary. Donations are welcome.
The Island Diversity Council, in collaboration with the Island’s public schools, premieres a thought-provoking exhibition on the illusion of race — All of Us Are Related, Each of Us Is Unique — comprising 18 graphic panels and a film entitled Six Billion Races, which emphasizes the unity, as well as the diversity, of humankind.
The exhibition will be open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26, through Friday, August 1, in the cafeteria of the West Tisbury School on Old County Road.
Puppets in the Garden
Puppets in the Garden is a special day for families to walk the paths of Polly Hill Arboretum and find puppet surprises among the trees. The program is set for Sunday, July 27, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the arboretum in West Tisbury.
While most children are not going to grow up to be farmers, they will be the next generation of stewards of the land. So the Farm Institute offers several summer programs for kids 2 to 15 that will give children experiences to last long after they leave the Island, including:
• Summer camp for ages 4 to 14,
• the Work Income Sharing Project (WISP) for ages 11 to 15,
• Wee Farmer days for ages 2 to 4,
• and teen apprenticeships.
The first interview Michael Holley ever asked for as a reporter — from his mom, for her life story when he was a nine-year-old boy back in Akron — she refused to give him.
Mr. Holley overcame this setback, going on to write for the Akron Beacon Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Tribune and for 10 years a column in the Boston Globe. Anyone who follows sports in this part of the world knows that he now hosts the midday Dale and Holley show on the WEEI sports radio network, 850 AM on your radio dial.
Connie Toteanu has a special talent. From the age of seven, Miss Toteanu has been entering pies into the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair. According to the new children’s book Connie, Vineyard Pie Girl, by Chilmarker Don Davis, “Over the years she won many ribbons — some blue.”
