Art
For the sixth year in a row, the sun shone on the festivities of Polly Hill Arboretum’s summer solstice celebration, held Saturday afternoon on the arboretum grounds in West Tisbury.
Enjoy the fruits of their labors, not to mention the vegetables and beef too.
It’s the grand opening celebration of Morning Glory Farm’s new farmstand.
If you’ve watched the construction you know this ain’t your grandmama’s farm stand no more.
The fun starts on Saturday at 11 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m.
There will be hayrides, farm tours, book signings, pony rides, and of course, food. The grill will be smoking with Island-grown beef burgers, plus soup and salad made with fresh picked veggies.
Can you handle the heat? Roscoe Tanner brings his 153-mile-an-hour serve to the Vineyard Youth Tennis center on Tuesday, June 29. At the 1978 U.S. Open, his serve actually broke the net. But don’t worry, he’s not looking to ace you. Tanner, once ranked fourth in the world, will be holding clinics all day long. High schoolers are from 9 to 10:30 a.m, adult women from 1 to 3 p.m., and men from 2 to 5 p.m.
Summer Welcome
The Martha’s Vineyard Center 4 Living will hold its first fundraiser — called Summer Welcome — at the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs on Friday, June 25, from 6 to 10 p.,m. The evening of Island-style fun includes dinner, dancing by deejay, door prizes and silent auction. Tickets are $10 each, with a cash bar. Proceeds go toward finding a permanent home for the Supportive Day Program.
Tennis and art will help raise funds for students, women and artists in Haiti through two Vineyard groups this weekend. The Fish Farm for Haiti Project will host a tennis tournament at Farm Neck, Friday through Sunday, and the PeaceQuilts organization will host a show of quilts made in Haiti.
Twelve Hundred dollars and a week of professional wall time was the award for three Island high school seniors who won the Martha’s Vineyard Arts Association scholarship given by the Old Sculpin Gallery. It is hard to know which is better: invaluable experience, or valuable resources.
This year the winners of the scholarship were Lonni Phillips, Naomi Scott and Maggie Howard.
On Sunday, there was an opening reception for this annual showing of the recipients of the scholarship; their exhibit runs until June 26.