Arts & Entertainment
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.
Author Thomas Dresser will speak about his book Mystery on the Vineyard: Politics, Passion and Scandal on East Chop, a true story of the shocking 1940 murder of an elderly visitor to the Island, on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
Mr. Dresser has previously self-published five booklets featuring favorite New England haunts.
If you had to pick the worst example of marketing defeating morality, it would be hard to go past the bottled water industry.
People spend some $7 billion buying the product each year. According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, Americans consumed some 31.2 billion liters of it in 2006, mostly packaged in plastic.
The opening reception for the Plein Air Invitational Show will be held on Saturday, Sept. 13, from 4 to 7 p.m. in Oak Bluffs at both the Dragonfly Gallery, 91 Dukes County avenue, and at Pik Nik, 99 Dukes County avenue. The show runs through Sept. 19.
“Whose underwear is this?” asks artist Betty Wolfson with a laugh.
“Usually I ask permission to photograph and then paint someone’s laundry line, but I didn’t get the chance when I snapped this one somewhere in Vineyard Haven. Now I’m hoping the owner will recognize her silky panties and step forward.” Surely the unknown laundry-hanger will do so if she happens to see the poster painting for Let It All Hang Out, when Featherstone Center for The Arts presents works this Sunday by the North Hampton and Oak Bluffs artist.
Elva Miller cut a most unlikely figure for a strumpet to celebrity.
