Arts & Entertainment
Gardening expert and author C.L. Fornari will launch her new book, A Garden Lover’s Martha’s Vineyard, with a wine and cheese signing reception open to all on Thursday, June 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury. Gazette readers can get a taste of the full-color book — which features Island gardens large and small, from formal layouts in Edgartown to Victorian-inspired gardens in Oak Bluffs to casual up-Island gardens — from the excerpt below, about a Chilmark couple growing a vineyard on the Vineyard.
As an Island known for our close connections, we know, too, about differences. How do we respond to differences and create opportunity out of conflict? And how do we foster understanding?
That’s the focus of an interactive workshop to be held on Island on Saturday, June 14. This day-long workshop presents a new way to view conflict: as a chance for connection.
There also will be a free overview of nonviolent communication on Friday, June 13, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Howes House in West Tisbury.
Foundation Awards Gift
The Comcast Foundation has awarded a $10,000 gift to the Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha’s Vineyard. The fund will use the grant to help address the needs of the Island and grow program initiatives directly affecting the Vineyard community.
Since 1982, the Permanent Endowment Fund has served as the Island’s community foundation. All of its resources focus exclusively on addressing the needs of the Vineyard. More information is available by calling 508-338-4665.
Diners at Island restaurants will pay more for everything from fish and chips to omelettes this summer as the cost of almost all ingredients has skyrocketed.
Vineyard, chefs, caterers and bakers struggling with their soaring costs — the price of basics such as eggs, flour and cooking oil have more than doubled, even tripled in the past year, they report — have been forced to increase their own prices.
Wee Farmers
Wee Farmer mornings are back at the Farm Institute in Katama, for children ages two to four and their grown-up friends ready for a morning of discovery.
Beginning tomorrow, Saturday, June 7, Farm educator Mary Baker will engage wee farmers with plenty of hands-on activities from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Participants will explore the friendship garden, meet new baby animals, hear stories and more. The cost is $15 per session.
To register or for details, call 508-627-7007, extensions 106.
Former chancellor of the University of Connecticut health center Dr. Les Cutler presents The Health Care Dilemma: How We Got Here, Where Can We Go, How Do We Get There? on Wednesday, June 11, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Public Library, his lecture is free and all are welcome.
In addition to serving as chancellor, Dr. Cutler was president and chief executive of the University of Connecticut Health System and its Finance Corporation from 1992 to 2000.
