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A grand puppet parade down Main street, Vineyard Haven on Saturday will be a highlight of the fourth annual weekend-long Martha’s Vineyard Puppet Festival. The parade will begin at 5 p.m., but anyone who would like to join the parade can bring a puppet friend and meet at Katharine Cornell Theatre at 4:30, or come at 3 p.m. to a free puppet-making event and make a parade puppet to follow the giant puppets — Mother Earth, Mother Ocean and Father Sky.
Sisters Celebration
Bring your sister (if you’re speaking), your daughters, nieces, cousins, friends, sister in law, and neighbors to A Sisters Celebration on Wednesday, July 14, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Library, featuring readings by Carol Gilligan, Jessica Harris, Rose Styron and Jan Freeman, director of Paris Press and co-editor of Sisters: An Anthology (Paris Press, 2009)
Writers included are Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Parker, Joan Baez, Barbara Kingsolver, Wendy Wasserstein and Alice Walker.
Patty Howell Publishes
Island native Patty Howell has published World Class Marriage: How to Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have, a book on marriage she cowrote with her husband, Ralph Jones. The book identifies 16 pillars essential for marital success, based on research as well as their more than 30 years as a married couple. Patty Howell is the daughter of E. Everett and Dorothy Howell of Vineyard Haven. Her father was a well-known photographer and her mother taught for many years at the Tisbury School.
Textiles Trunk Show
Renowned textile designer John Robshaw will be at Midnight Farm in Vineyard Haven from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 10. The store on Walter Cromwell Lane, behind Stop and Shop, hosts a trunk show of his natural fabrics all day, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and all are welcome to meet the designer or just stop by to see his latest work.
One spring day a few years ago, alone on his boat off Cape Cod, writer William Powers fouled his propeller on a mooring line. He leant overboard to free it and fell in, drowning his mobile phone.
Being a man used to constant electronic contact with the world, Mr. Powers first considered this a “disaster.” But actually, it was an epiphanous moment.
For a young, pretty girl growing up in pre-women’s lib Arkansas, a sure way out of a small hick town was winning a beauty contest. But what if the girl happens to have a mind? A good, questing mind? Once she wins the contest, is she going to be content cutting ribbons and crooning Wayne Newton hits in piano bars? Maybe not.