Arts & Entertainment
As we wait for the first crops of the new growing season to appear in school gardens, Island Grown Schools’ Harvest of the Month program celebrates winter squash, one of the best storage crops to help sustain us through the long months between fall’s bounty and the first crops of spring.
When news spread quickly on the Internet that legendary Boston crime boss James (Whitey) Bulger had been captured in Santa Monica on June 22, 2011 after 16 years on the lam, it was fitting that Dick Lehr found out the old-fashioned way. He read about it in the Boston Globe, delivered to the doorstep of his Belmont home the next morning.
The Cleaveland House Poetry Group was founded over 40 years ago by Dionis Coffin Riggs, its name arising from her house in West Tisbury where the meetings are held. It is the longest running writers group on Martha’s Vineyard, hosting bi-weekly meetings, year-round. Today Dionis’ daughter, Cynthia Riggs, presides over the group, and the meetings are still held at the same location.
Just because the West Tisbury Library is in its small-but-beautiful stage at their temporary location doesn’t mean they don’t have a book drop — and it is hungry. To get ready for their spring book sale, the library needs your used books.
Everybody dance now, no experience necessary. Starting on Wednesday, April 17, and running through May 22, a new modern improvisational dance group is beginning at the Anchors, across from the Chappy ferry. No previous experience is necessary, except life experience, that is — and you must be 21 or older to attend the class.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters was established in 1898. There are 250 members in the organization, never more or less. To be inducted into the Academy, one of its members must die. In other words, it is very selective. It is also rather mind-boggling to think of the backlog of talent to choose from when an opening does arise.
