Arts & Entertainment
Oak Bluffs Christmas
Oak Bluffs is hosting an old-fashioned Christmas party Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. at Offshore Ale on Kennebec avenue. Bring the entire family for an afternoon of caroling, cookie decorating, ornament making, music by Wes Nagy and a photo op with Santa. The award for best window decor in Oak Bluffs will be announced at 5 p.m. For details, call 508-693-2626.
A copper-white streak across the field,
Darting through dunes, power to wield . . .
A Brittany spaniel at home on the moors
Not of French, but Vineyard shores.
Like a king atop ridges he’d survey his land,
Alert ears, tail — and again sail the sand.
When he did pause and gaze with amber eyes
Upon those he loved, with his soul so wise . . .
’Twas clear Copper to no other could compare:
Writer Holly Nadler of Oak Bluffs is busily scribbling away at a sequel to her book Haunted Island: True Ghost Stories of Martha’s Vineyard, released by Down East Books in 1994, and now going into its ninth printing. The new book will be titled Vineyard Supernatural: True Ghost Stories from America’s Most Haunted Island, expected to go on sale in the fall of 2008.
Renowned photojournalist Peter Simon will present a slide show documenting his life in photography and music at the Chilmark Public Library on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. Mr. Simon has documented many historic events from the protest-filled 1960s to the greatest names in rock and roll, reggae and pop music.
Hungarian-Canadian author and sailor Ferenc Mate, author of The Hills of Tuscany, the critically acclaimed A Reasonable Life, and two books of photography including the highly acclaimed World’s Best Sailboats and A New England Autumn, will discuss his new book, A Vineyard in Tuscany: Shooting for the Moon, and offer a taste of his wines, on Friday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. upstairs at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Main street in Vineyard Haven.
Tomorrow at the Grace Church Holly Day Fair, the youth group at Grace Church — Youth M-Powered — will have a table where you can donate money to Heifer International.
