Arts & Entertainment
Emergency Funds Available
Dukes County has been awarded $4,028 from the federal government’s emergency food and shelter program to be distributed among agencies in the county. The funds will be given to not-for-profit organizations either providing or capable of providing food or shelter services in the county. The deadline is Wednesday, April 23.
Like it or not, we all are a part of globalization. The source of our consumer products, the workers growing or assembling them, and the means of getting them to us, all affect how we live and work — even here on Martha’s Vineyard.
Globalization: Its Impact on Our Lives is a course to be offered on Island by the Schools of Christian Mission, promising to expand the concept of mission in today’s world.
In Mystery on the Vineyard, author Tom Dresser delves into a grisly unsolved murder. Here is an extract from the new book. It was pre-World War II and a dapper off-Islander arrived, impressing the locals. Drawn to the prettiest girl, he was upset when an elderly woman tried to break up the romance.
This story happened on East Chop in Oak Bluffs nearly 70 years ago. The Red Sox led the American League in early June and John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath had recently been released as a movie, starring Henry Fonda.
On May 31, the Polly Hill Arboretum and the Vineyard Conservation Society will welcome Paul Tukey, founder of SafeLawns.org, an international coalition promoting environmentally friendly lawn care, for a lively discussion on lawns.
Reed to Know
Greg Whitmore, the Islands’ regional ecologist for The Trustees of Reservations, will give a talk entitled All About Phragmites from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 20, at the Mary P. Wakeman Center, Shirley avenue, off Lambert’s Cove Road in Vineyard Haven.
Mr. Whitmore will discuss the natural history of the common reed, how it got to the Vineyard, why it is harmful, and what people can do to help control it. Admission is free. People can register by calling 508-693-7662.
The Tisbury School is celebrating April as School Library Media Month. This year’s theme, shared with the public library, is Join the Circle of Knowledge at Your Library.
School reading specialist Natalie Krauthamer and librarian Patricia Ryan report that students from kindergarten through grade four have joined the circle of knowledge by participating (at home and in school) in a reading incentive inspired by author Toni Buzzeo’s Fire Up with Reading: A Mrs. Skorupski Story.
