Art
Fudging It
Murdick’s Fudge is again sponsoring the Run the Chop Challenge, a five-mile road race benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard. The race is on July 4, starting at the Tisbury School on Spring street in Vineyard Haven at 8:30 a.m.
The last of this winter’s Sail Martha’s Vineyard dinner/lecture series at the Black Dog Tavern will take place Wednesday, March 23 at 6 p.m. The evening will feature Dyer Jones, chief executive officer of the Herreshoff Museum/America’s Cup Hall of Fame.
Mr. Jones is also a former commodore of the New York Yacht Club and a coauthor of The 12 Metre Class; A History of the International 12 Metre Class.
Vineyard Voices is a book of oral histories compiled by Linsey Lee. Each story is, at first glance, a snapshot of a person’s life, just a page long. However, the effect one takes away from reading each entry is so much fuller, as if an entire life has been captured and immortalized.
To do this in just a few paragraphs takes a lot of skill and craftsmanship.
It was a road trip for 33 young musicians and their grown-up entourage, led by maestro Nancy Jephcote, as they joined the All-Cape & Island String Jamboree on Monday at Barnstable Intermediate School, an intensive orchestra event.
Free from the Heart
Nancy Slonim Aronie teaches a writing workshop called Straight from the Heart designed to help students find their own voice and write without worry. Beginning next week she will take a page from her own playbook by offering straight from her heart a free writing workshop.
Young Poet Awards
The 2011 Promising Young Poets contest has named four winners and two runners-up in its second annual contest for high school poets.
This years winners are Jess Dupon from the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, and Jordan Wallace, Claudia Taylor and Lizzie Kelleher from the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Runners-up are Truda Silberstein, from the regional high school and Oscar Thompson form the charter school.