The Friends of the Chilmark Public Library presents a slide show and artist talk featuring the new work of Carol Brown Goldberg on Wednesday, July 16, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.

Ms. Goldberg, a Chilmark summer resident since 1984, has been exhibiting in Washington, D.C., for more than 35 years. She is represented by Osuna Art in Bethesda, Md., and Adamar Gallery in Miami, Fla.

The Polly Hill Arboretum and the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center are pleased to host landscape historian Kenneth Helphand on Sunday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the arboretum.

In this lecture Mr. Helphand will discuss his award-winning and deeply moving book Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime, which states: “Gardens promise beauty where there is none, hope over despair, optimism over pessimism, and finally life in the face of death.”

Comics About You

Children’s author and illustrator Katie Davis will be visiting two of the Island libraries in the week ahead, leading a free program in which kids will be encouraged to work on journal entries in the comic book format which the author calls “autobiogra-strips.”

In Ms. Davis’s novel for middle-grade readers, The Curse of Addy McMahon, the title character keeps her diary in comic-strip format.

Red Cross Chapter Seeks

Professional Volunteers

The American Red Cross Cape Cod and Islands Chapter wants to cross-train nurses, paramedics, licensed practical nurses, emergency medical technicians and retired physicians for volunteer roles at the Red Cross.

Red Cross health services volunteers provide essential and preventive health services to ensure the highest quality of care to disaster victims in their time of need.

Alison Shaw: Yellow

The Yellow Show is opening with a reception at the Alison Shaw Gallery during the Arts District Stroll this Saturday, July 12, from 4 to 7 p.m.

Island chef and author of Raising the Salad Bar Cathy Walthers will be there with one of her salads; Slice of Life baker Megan D’Olimpio is creating a dessert; and Craig MacCormack will be bartender for the day.

The New England Conservatory of Music’s Millennium Gospel Choir perform Saturday, July 12, at 7 p.m. at The Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. Admission is by freewill donation.