Art
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is hosting a Civil War concert featuring American troubadour Bill Schustik on Thursday, August 11, at 5:30 p.m. at the Federated Church, 45 South Summer street, Edgartown. The concert is being held in conjunction with the museum’s ongoing exhibit We Are Marching Along: Martha’s Vineyard and the Civil War.
Home Buying Seminar
A question and answer session about home buying with a senior mortgage loan officer of Bank of America, Lorraine Wilson, will be held on Thursday, August 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Ice Savours
Ice Savours, a benefit for the ice arena, is from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, August 12, upstairs at the Martha’s Vineyard Chowder House (formerly the Ocean Club), located at 9 Ocean avenue in Oak Bluffs. Enjoy a wine tasting, hors d’oeuvre and a silent and live auction.
The mayor of Newton and Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in 2012, Setti Warren, will visit the next meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Democratic Council on Saturday, August 13, at 9 a.m., at the Howes House in West Tisbury. The public is invited to attend.
It is the first of a planned program to bring all the Democratic Senatorial candidates to the Island over the next few months.
By NICOLE GALLAND
For people who are scared (or uninterested) in the work of William Shakespeare, the Vineyard is a good place to get over it. The Vineyard Playhouse’s summer Shakespeare in the Amphitheatre is as playful and robust as anything on Nickelodeon, and in the off-season, Shakespeare for the Masses makes the Bard seem as accessible as an HBO series.
“These people did what the Emancipation Proclamation could not do, what Lincoln could not do, what the North and South alone could not do,” Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson said, outlining one of many legacies of the Great Migration, which she chronicled in The Warmth of Other Suns, her epic account of this demographic seism.
“They freed themselves.”