A discussion of Lighthouse Stewardship is open to all tonight at 5 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. The museums’s executive director, Keith Gorman, will talk about the history and renovations of Island lighthouses. The cost is $12, $10 for members.

Massachusetts fell prey this weekend to the tainted tomato scare which has taken the vegetable off store shelves from Florida to California.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday that 12 cases of salmonella in Massachusetts have been linked to the national salmonella outbreak associated with certain varieties of tomatoes.

No cases were reported in Dukes County.

Kaf Warman, professor in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama and associate artistic director of Island Theatre Workshop, will offer her popular adult acting class again this summer.

The class will explore personal material in a theatrical context, incorporating movement, mask work, poetry and music. The class is of particular interest to actors, dancers, writers, teachers, therapist, painters and anyone age 16 and up interested in the visual, performing and healing arts.

On Thursday, June 19, Slowfood Martha’s Vineyard will hold its monthly potluck supper from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. This meeting will focus on planning the group’s summer’s highlight event, a potluck community gathering featuring keynote speaker Michael Pollan.

In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years in Manhattan. Her uncle Abe requires assistance to keep their landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. In the first few chapters, Becca reacquainted herself with Island life and through Mott (the general manager) met Quincas (a Brazilian) and the rest of Pequot’s staff. Last week, readers were introduced to Uncle Abe and his hatred of Richard Moby, the chief executive officer of Broadway, an off-Island landscaping business.