Patricia Nanon: Artist's Vision Gave Dancers a Gift of Time

By C.K. WOLFSON

Seven dancers, spring-wound and fluid, prance and twirl across the unlit stage to the dissonant tones and rhythmic clamor coming from a portable CD player. In shades of gray and black they spin and pose in preparation for this weekend's season opening of The Yard.

At Charter School, an Affirmation of Doing Right

By C.K. WOLFSON

It was as if the buoyant mood and fellowship at the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School's graduation created a force field that staved off Saturday morning's threatened rain. More than 150 smiling, mingling people gradually made their way across the grass behind the volleyball court, and handshake by handshake, hug by hug, ambled into the large white tent.

On 28 Island Farms, It's Time for Annual Ritual of Shearing

By C.K. WOLFSON

With their limbs fit snugly against each other, the shearer and the 175-pound Corriedale sheep he holds form a shifting, flesh-and-bone puzzle. It is a single, interlocking sculpture, a hologram of shapes.

The Rev. Arlene Bodge sees life as a journey whose prime function is to establish a relationship with God.

End of an Era: Louis Giordano Leaves Eatery on State Road

By C.K. WOLFSON

After receiving this year's Tisbury Businessman of the Year award - timed like a certificate of graduation - Louis Giordano has announced his decision to stop operating the State Road take-out food business that bears his name. He is making plans to enter the Island job market. He has leased the Louis' building, and turned over the name and the recipes to former Black Dog chef Douglas Hewson, effective May 1.

Theatre Season Invites Islanders for Auditions

By C.K. WOLFSON

"What actors, professionals and amateurs have to realize, is that the people who are watching the audition are rooting for them," said M.J. Bruder Munafo, artistic director at the Vineyard Playhouse. "I'll speak for myself - I'm hoping that they're going to come up and just be fabulous."