Art
Witness to Haiti’s Struggle
Over the years, the Martha’s Vineyard community has made a commitment to Haiti through numerous fundraisers, groups of Islanders traveling to the country to assist in myriad ways and by being host to Haitian artists here on the Island. It is a movement that began many years before the earthquake and has intensified since that tragedy.
Science on Show
The science fair at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will be on Saturday, Feb. 12 at the school cafeteria and library. It is open to the public from 11 a.m. to noon.
Organized by science teacher Jackie Hermann, the science fair will feature projects from more than 100 students. Judges include visiting scientists from on and off-Island.
Judging will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. Awards will be announced at noon. All are welcome to see the students’ work.
HIGH ON THE HOG: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America. By Jessica B. Harris. Bloomsbury, January 2011. 304 pages, photographs. $26, hardcover.
It amazes new students of ar chaeology that the most essential insights into a bygone community may be found in the humble section of rubble called the kitchen midden. It’s here that broken plate ware is examined, along with iron pots and pans and broken ceramic jars containing trace elements of oil from which experts reassemble the daily fabric of a past society’s life.
The abstract artist Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) ran with a pretty serious art crowd. The names are icons of the form: Louise Bourgeois, Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg to name just a few. He also established the American Abstract Artists group with Arshile Gorky and William deKooning to help educate the American public regarding this new movement.
The Lobster Bowl
The Patriots may be sitting out this Super Bowl, but here on the Island there will still be a bit of New England to enjoy while watching the big game.
Grace Church is opening its doors on Sunday, Feb. 6 from noon until 2 p.m. and offering up their heavenly lobster rolls to ease the pain of having to watch someone else’s teams take the field.
Remember when you first met Mars Blackmon and Nola Darling? That was about 1986 and Mars was out begging for some action. “Please baby please. Please baby, baby please.”
It was the start of a career that has made headlines ever since.
But perhaps time has clouded the experience or maybe nothing you’ve read so far has made any sense at all. In either case, it is definitely time to head to the Edgartown library for the next four Sundays.