Art
Those Who Serve Speak
As part of their new publication, Those Who Serve: Martha’s Vineyard and World War II, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is hosting a book signing and reading on Saturday, May 14 at 3 p.m. Readers will include veterans Hector Asselin, Mev Good, Ted Morgan, Tom Hale and Nelson Smith whose oral histories appear in the book recorded by the museum’s oral history curator, Linsey Lee.
Creative Writing Classes
The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing will once again be offering classes at its summer seminar taking place during the week of July 18. The institute has also added a one week summer camp this year for high school students. The writers’ camp will run July 11 through 15 and be held at the charter school.
When Elizabeth Murray was 16 years old, she had already seen far too much of the unforgiving side of life, and she had begun to ask herself if what she knew was all there was. What she knew was that she’d recently buried her mother, who died of AIDS, in a donated pine box with her name misspelled on it. Mr. Murray’s addict father, who was suffering from AIDS himself in a homeless shelter elsewhere in New York city, could not attend. Ms. Murray herself had dropped out of high school and was homeless.
The Vineyard Playhouse is getting set for their summer season. And as a spring teaser they are presenting a staged reading of Dick and Lola, a new comedy by Debra Monk at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21.
The entire world is coming to Martha’s Vineyard. Yes, that is the way it feels each summer as the full ferries empty out onto Five Corners. But this is another event called One World Day taking place at the high school and celebrating the many diverse cultures of the world. It is a showcase of the multifaceted talents of the Island community.
Parenting Teens
The joys of parenting are endless but so are the difficulties. Each year brings new challenges as children grow older and more independent. The teenage years can be the most difficult to navigate.
With this in mind, the Dukes County Health Council and Youth Task Force are sponsoring a talk by Martha B. Straus entitled Dangerous Transitions: Parenting Teens with Heart and Courage. The talk will be held at the YMCA on Wednesday, May 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.