Plum TV Nominated

Plum TV of Martha’s Vineyard (channel 76), along with Plum’s Nantucket and Sun Valley stations, has been nominated for eight New England Emmy awards. Winners will be announced at Boston Marriott Copley Place on May 30.

How do parents raise emotionally healthy, nonviolent sons? The question has special pertinence during April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

That proud twinkle in John Alaimo’s eye on the cover of his latest solo album does not deceive.

Called Songs for Three Seasons, the disc delivers a rich and textured display of a master mood painter on an enchanting and enriching spree. Mr. Alaimo affably invites us to share his whimsy, his nostalgia, an occasional flirtation with regret, all on a splendidly harmonic solo pianistic tour of nature’s three warmer seasons.

The last Island Plan forum on a specific topic will examine the challenges the Vineyard society faces today.

The social environment forum will be held on Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. in the Tisbury Senior Center. The forum is free and open to the public.

A panel will include Laurie Halt, assistant superintendent, Martha’s Vineyard public schools; Francine Kelly, executive director, Featherstone Center for the Arts; Sarah Kuh program director, Vineyard Health Care Access; and Linda Sibley, Island Plan steering committee.

Oral History Workshop

A workshop in collecting oral histories will be held at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, 59 School street in Edgartown, on Saturday, May 9, from 1 to 4 p.m. with a follow up meeting at a time to be determined by participants.

Explore methods for conducting oral history interviews to learn more about your family, your community and the Island.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.