Community
The Yard Arts! Kids, Family and Community festival programming continues. Besides the free family Saturday matinees every week (see above), The Yard is offering one more kids’ creative theatre workshop, an upcoming opportunity for kids to perform at the Tabernacle, and the Multi-Generational Performance Project with Sarah Wilbur.
Up in West Tisbury, past the airport but before the Mill Pond, is a small building. A part of both Island and national history, it serves as a social and cultural melting pot and a way to track economic trends. It is the Lillian Manter Memorial Hostel and, on a recent Tuesday morning shortly after 10 a.m., every bed was booked, but not a guest was around. The hot July sun was out and the groups of bikers and summer campers, the travellers from Canada and Germany and the friends shacked up in the one private room were all off exploring the Island.
Even Art Buchwald had his dream.
“I imagine it this way,” he wrote in a 2002 column in this newspaper. “I am going to be cremated and then have my ashes dropped over every cocktail party on Martha’s Vineyard. It’s the only way I can make all the parties held here in the summer. I want Cape Air, the friendly, nine-seat airline, to fly me . . . The plane takes off from Martha’s Vineyard Airport, and Mike Wallace is in charge of dropping the ashes.”
Parish Contributes Funds
To Catholic Charities
The Martha’s Vineyard Parish of the Good Shepherd contributed $20,450 to the 2008 Catholic Charities Appeal in the Diocese of Fall River.
The diocesan appeal raised just under $4.3 million.
The final tally is $10,052 below last year’s record high, representing a decrease of approximately two tenths of one per cent.
Edgartown Jewels
CB Stark Jewelers will be having a John Hardy Trunk show in Edgartown all day on Saturday, August 2, featuring one-of-a-kind designs along with a large selection of classic styles, at the shop at 27 North Water street. For details, call 508-627-1260.
Yes We Have No Bananas, at 697 State Road, will host a jewelry trunk show opening reception on Thursday, July 31, from 4 to 7 p.m. Partial proceeds from the show will help to raise money and awareness for the American Red Cross.