Della Hardman Day

The Oak Bluffs Public Library will host an artists’ reception on Saturday, July 26, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. for a photography exhibition in honor of Della Hardman Day.

The library held a contest to select images to be included in the 2009 Savor the Moment calendar. Selected photographs will be on display at the library from July 25 to August 16. More information about the event is available by calling the library at 508-693-9433.

Supreme Journalist

Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Supreme Court reporter, will give two talks this week: Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center as part of its Summer Institute lecture series, and then, Thursday, a free talk about legal trends at the nation’s top court at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.

Store Battles Cancer

A month after the launch of the Triple Winner Game, Stop & Shop’s annual campaign to raise funds toward research and treatment of pediatric cancer, the company’s Vineyard Haven store has raised $4,144 toward the effort. The chain so far has collected $1.4 million in this year’s campaign.

It’s a benefit bivalve banquet: come to the annual clambake and auction to raise money for the Vineyard Nursing Association, the Island’s only home health care agency, on Wednesday, July 23, at 6 p.m. at The Field Gallery in West Tisbury.

An Evening with Livingston Taylor at the Tabernacle, his only concert on the Vineyard this summer, will be tomorrow, Saturday, July 19, 8 p.m.

“You are not my enemy/ my grandmother my grandfather.

I built walls between us./ Rubble made sound

sand scattered plastic bags all around

rifles and checkpoints/bright lights into your eyes...”