Art
It’s the opening of the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby — and that means it’s time to open, too, the Louisa Gould Gallery’s annual group show of sporting art.
In the spirit of the Vineyard and the 63rd derby exhibiting artists celebrate, in various media, the Island, its natural beauty and all aspects of fish and derby fishing.
Word gets around on a small Island. “I only wanted to do this for my grandmother,” explained Michael Domitrovich to the crowd, “but you tell one person, who tells one person, who tells one person, and then somebody tells the Gazette, and then suddenly . . . .”
Then suddenly you’ve got an audience of more than 100 people, sitting in neat white folding chairs on State Beach, for an evening at once unique and yet quintessentially Vineyard.
The Vineyard Haven Public Library’s special author series continues on Monday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m., with An Evening with Rose Styron.
Rose Styron is a poet, journalist and human rights activist. She is the author of By Vineyard Light, a collection of poems centered on Martha’s Vineyard, where she and her husband, the late writer William Styron, spent extended summers.
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby. His efforts have so far been failures, but that does not discourage him.
Dear P:
Phyllis Vecchia will be holding a fall creative drama workshop for four-and-a-half to ten-year-olds at the Oak Bluffs School in the home economics room. Classes will be held on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
The series of classes will begin on Thursday, Oct. 2, and run weekly until Dec. 4.
Craft Works Up-Island
The Friends of the Chilmark Library are trying to organize a fiber hand craft group to meet one night a week at the Chilmark Library from 7 to 9 p.m. All knitters, crocheters, quilters, needlepointers, spinners — hand stitchers of all descriptions — are welcome. The purpose is to share our composite knowledge about these hand skills and have some fun at the same time. Beginners are most welcome, and of course, there is no charge.