Art
Wonder-Full
Sense of Wonder is about to begin their fall season of art classes. The classes are, as always, led by Pam Benjamin with help this year from Lily Jane Morris. Lily is a graduate of Mass College of Art and is also a past Sense of Wonder camper and counselor. You could say she has wonder pulsing through her veins.
Classes begin soon with the following schedule: Tuesdays 3:30 to 5 p.m. for K through 1st grade; Wednesdays 3:30 to 5 p.m. for 4th through 6th grades; Thursdays 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. for 2nd and 3rd grades.
Henry James Digs into Your Psyche
Throughout the spring and summer the folks at the Vineyard Ghosts Walking Tour have delighted and frightened visitors and Islanders alike during their tours through the three down-Island towns. The journeys travel literally through graveyards and to homes and businesses known to have haunted roots. They also travel much farther, to times past and the legends that birthed these spectral necromancers: A violent or too soon demise, whalers and their wives separated too early and their grief flowing everlasting, the cursed and revengeful.
Featherstone Center for the Arts has attracted an especially random group of Island artists for its new show, The Art of Personal Altars. This is not the usual show of landscape painters or photographers, sculptors or fabric artists — no such mundane grouping applies here. These personal altars cross all categories of the visual arts. Ann Smith, executive director at Featherstone, hopes this will be a new way for artists to express themselves. “We’ve had an incredible response,” she said.
Chilmark resident Martina Mastromonaco was announced as the grand prize winner of the Favorite New England Beach photo contest hosted by Woods Hole Group. Martina’s photo was of Chilmark Pond, Land Bank Beach.
To celebrate their 25th anniversary Woods Hole Group launched the contest in August and invited the public from around the country to submit photographs of their favorite New England beaches. Submissions were accepted via Facebook, e-mail and even mobile phone uploads.
One Way Ticket, Yeah
On Oct. 23 the Beatles are coming to the Vineyard. And you thought their debut at Shea Stadium was monumental.
For those worried, or excited, about ghostly visages, the folks playing the music will not be the Fab Four but rather local Island musicians who call themselves the Daytrippers. But close your eyes and it may truly be John, George, Paul and Ringo you hear.