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The Federated Church of Edgartown is sending volunteers on a 10-day mission to New Orleans in November to continue the rebuilding work the church youth group began last December.
With the passing of the second anniversary of Katrina, and with so much left incomplete, inadequate, or non-existent in this still-ravaged area, the volunteers feel called to lend additional physical, emotional and spiritual support.
Learn how people around the world are using prayer for healing. National speaker John Adams brings his experience to the Island Thursday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Vineyard Haven. With illustrations from his personal experience, Mr. Adams will show how anyone can use thoughtful, intelligent prayer to improve their health and advance their happiness.
The popular IMP after-school classes are back, on stage at the Oak Bluffs and Edgartown schools.
On Tuesdays, grades six through eight meet at the Oak Bluffs School 4:45 to 6:30 p.m. On Thursdays, grades two to five meet at Edgartown School from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Diversity Discussion
Island Diversity Council hosts a showing of Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part 3, followed by a discussion, at 6:30 p.m. at the West Tisbury School cafeteria. All are welcome to discuss this important topic and how it affects our Island community.
Court TV debuted a show last year called Murder By the Book. They invited five crime novelists to choose a true crime case that fascinated them, and present it in the series — full of interviews with witnesses and detectives and prosecutors. Linda Fairstein, pictured above, was selected for the second series.
Masters of the Celtic harp Gráinne Hambly and William Jackson will play a concert — and offer a music therapy workshop centered on the small harp — next weekend at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
Both events are on Saturday, Sept. 29 — the concert is at 8 p.m. and Mr. Jackson’s workshop is at 4 p.m.