Community
The wind is free and there will likely be plenty of it for tomorrow’s first Martha’s Vineyard Wind Festival in Oak Bluffs. The kite-flying festival at Ocean and Waban Parks is a merger of many new and old ideas. It’s a celebration for the end of the summer, an opportunity to gather for fun and fellowship. It’s string, paper and tails taking over the skies.
The event begins at 11 a.m. with kite making in Waban Park. Kites will be flying through the afternoon from noon to 6 p.m. mostly in Ocean Park. It is free and open to all ages.
Tastes of Tashmoo
The fifth annual Tastes of Tashmoo, a benefit to support the ongoing restoration of the 1887 Tashmoo Spring building, will be held on Friday, Sept. 2 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at a waterfront home on Hines Point. The event features live music and a silent auction, as well as tastes from the Island’s waters, farms, caterers, restaurants, wine shops, and brew pub.
The cost for the event is $50 per person.
For details, tickets and location call 508-696-9039 or e-mail [email protected].
Dipping the Paddle for Paradise
Time to put your paddle where your mouth is. Huh? How about, getting your big back up for clams and quahaugs.
Summer is on the wane and now, admit it, you’re thinking, yikes, in trying to do everything, be everywhere, have the best summer ever, you forgot how to relax on your vacation. Never fear, there is still time to change course.
The dog days of summer take on a whole new meaning as New York artist Judith Gwyn Brown is now offering a portion of the proceeds of her commissioned pet portraits to P.A.W.S. of the Vineyard, the all-volunteer, nonprofit Pet Adoption and Welfare Service of Martha’s Vineyard.
Proceeds from Ms. Brown’s pet portraits can be designated to provide coupons to Vineyard pet owners to help alleviate the ever-rising cost of spaying or neutering.
Every August I look forward to the Chicken Alley Sale at the Vineyard Haven Thrift Shop. For 10 years, Olga Hirshhorn has organized, supervised and advertised her pet Vineyard project and her hard work and imaginative impulses have been richly rewarded. The Chicken Alley Sale has made hundreds of thousands of dollars for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services and given hundreds of people a chance to snatch up a vast number of donated items, proving the theory once again, that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure.