Art
Haitian Art Exhibit
For the entire month of October the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Library will host an exhibit by artist Wilfrid Dantis as part of their Art in the Stacks program.
On Sunday, Oct. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. the Gay Head Gallery will celebrate Columbus Day weekend with a show to benefit ACE MV, the Island’s Adult Center for Education.
An exhibit of paintings, photographs, and other works of art inspired by the beauty and richness of the Vineyard, and a short presentation about ACE MV will be the main feature of the show.
John Barrymore Lives
On Wednesday, Oct. 12, the Tisbury Senior Center will present at 1:30 p.m. a program entitled Barrymore: The Life and Times of the Bad Boy Actor, John Barrymore. There is no charge for this event
Music from New Mexico
On Saturday, Oct. 8 at 10:30 a.m. the Chilmark Public Library story hour is taking a journey to New Mexico when musician Jeanie McLerie leads the group. Ms. McLerie hails from Silver City, New Mexico and with her husband, Ken Keppeler, she is one half of the group Bayou Seco. Ms. McLerie teaches sing-a-longs and participatory songs as well as New Mexican dances.
Admission is free. Call 508-645-3360 for information.
If your idea of a homemade gift of food is a paper plate of chocolate chip cookies (recipe on the package; can’t go wrong with that), bound up in cellophane and tied with a ribbon, then the new book Gourmet Gifts: 100 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion to Make Yourself and Wrap With Style (Harvard Common Press, $19.95), is going to make you feel like the last Neanderthal when the Cro-Magnons announced, “Look, we just do everything better.”
Hookers of Rugs
On Wednesday, Oct. 5, Rosalie Powell began a series of rug hooking classes which will run for eight successive Wednesdays. The first meeting was mostly a matter of preparation, gathering materials and grouping folks together depending on their experience. This means there’s still plenty of time to climb aboard before the real work begins.