Arts & Entertainment
Student Art Show
A show featuring the work of the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association scholarship winners opens tomorrow at the Old Sculpin Gallery on Dock street in in Edgartown.
The reception is Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Featured artists are scholarship winners Isaac Hurwitz and Kira Shipway and alternate Tova Katzman.
Isaac’s mediums range from oils, acrylics and inks to spray paint and watercolor. He is currently attending the San Francisco Art Institute.
The Summer Institute at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center has traditionally programmed its summer movie series with selections from the Boston Jewish Film Festival. This year, however, they have taken matters into their own hands by programming the festival themselves, becoming, in a sense, an international film festival unto themselves.
This summer’s slate of films includes both documentaries and features from around the world.
There were plenty of clams shelled out on Saturday afternoon at Nancy’s Snack Bar in Oak Bluffs, and all for a good cause. It was the fifth annual quahaug and oyster shucking contest, and this year the cause was the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard, which collected a lot of clams — $1,000 to be exact.
Gravestone Girls
The Gravestone Girls are coming to Vineyard Haven. Are you ready?
The girls are cemetery historians who claim as their mission to keep the dead alive. On Tuesday, June 21 at 7 p.m. they will appear at the Vineyard Haven Library to lead a virtual tour through the Vineyard’s 31 graveyards.
Who’s to say you didn’t walk the earth before. Maybe you were Joan of Arc or Genghis Khan. Then again, the possibility that you were Robert Smith Nobody or Abigail Nevermind Never Did Nothing is also just as likely. So are scenarios of brief lives as grasshoppers or species of spiders. The possibilities are endless. And we’ll never really know, right?
Don’t describe Gov. Deval Patrick’s book, A Reason to Believe, as a political biography. He takes issue with both words: political and biography.
For a start, he argues, the book is not political in that it isn’t “directed towards a political end, a prelude to another campaign or settling old scores.”
And that’s generally true. The book dishes no dirt and canvasses no specific detail of policy positions. And Mr. Patrick has long promised he will not run again for his current job.
