Arts & Entertainment
Students at the Tisbury School will study women in history through a theatre program led by Phyllis Vecchia. Eighth graders will reenact history with the women of the Salem witch trials and sixth graders will study Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Laura Jernegan and women of the whaling era. The program is offered through support from the town of Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard Center for the Visual Arts, Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank Charitable Fund and private donors.
Tonight marks the 20th annual barnraisers ball, and just like the first one in 1994 the event is free. Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish will play. Bring your dancing shoes. It begins at 7:30 p.m. at the West Tisbury Agricultural Hall — the barn raised 20 years ago by hundreds of community hands.
At a Harvard Law School event a few weeks ago that honored Alan Dershowitz’s career, Larry David sent a video.
“Look, the world is divided into two groups of people,” Mr. Dershowitz said, quoting Mr. David, an actor and fellow seasonal Vineyarder. “There are people who don’t know Alan and hate him. People who know Alan and love him. I’m in a third category. I know Alan really well and I hate his guts.”
On Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is screening Wood Sail Dreams, a movie about the journey of wooden sailboats from the 1970’s to today.
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, the Howes House Tuesday discussion group ponders problems shared between the U.S. and India.
West Tisbury Library hosts its semi-annual Community Poetry Reading with emcee West Tisbury poet laureate Justen Ahren on Sunday, Nov. 17 from 4 to 5 p.m. at Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven.
