Arts & Entertainment
The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living will hold its first in a series of fall and winter cultural luncheons on Saturday, Oct. 20, from noon to 2 p.m. at The Grill on Main street in Edgartown.The featured speaker is David R. White, executive and artistic director of the Yard.
For reservations call Leslie Clapp 508-939-9440.
The election season making you cranky? Well, Jimmy Tingle aims to turn that political frown upside down. His one-hour show will be screened on Friday, Oct. 12, at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center.
As Laura Wainwright distinguishes in the titular essay of her new book Home Bird: Four Seasons on Martha’s Vineyard, a home bird is different from a homebody. Unlike a homebody, who does not like leaving home, a home bird very much enjoys going out and traveling, but simply finds “special delight in the comfort, nourishment and complexity of our lives at home.”
But Ms. Wainwright also views her home as not merely her house on Lambert’s Cove where she lives with her husband and dogs, but the entirety of Martha’s Vineyard.
The first time I visited New England, my family came to see cousins who had moved to Montpelier, Vt. It was early October, and on one of the first days of our trip we headed to the farmers’ market in the middle of town.
Each farm stand held wooden crates overflowing with the most amazing variety of apples I had ever seen, in many shades of red, brown, yellow and orange, and in all shapes and sizes. These were not the Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious and Granny Smiths I was used to eating at home — there were Beacons, Idareds, Jonagolds, Gravensteins and more.
Consider for a moment the other vegetable. The one that doesn’t grow in the dirt in long, curvy rows to be forever guarded against grubs and weeds. How about a vegetable that is a true gift from the sea? We’re talking about seaweed here.
Bully. Target. Bystander. Hero.
The vocabulary words took on greater meaning for elementary school students at the Edgartown School on Thursday morning as they watched eight junior high students in the IMP theater program present Assertions, a series of monologues on the topic of bullying.
On Tuesday morning, a group of high school IMP players performed a similar piece for a middle school audience.
