It was 60 years ago that Helen Lamb first brought six children with disabilities to a leaky cottage in Oak Bluffs. The rest is not just history, but her beloved legacy: Camp Jabberwocky, a residential vacation camp for people with disabilities.

Photographer Peter Simon is currently working on a DVD of his life’s work. The project is called Through the Lens — Celebrating Fifty Years of Personalized Photojournalism.

The completed three-hour DVD will include the stories behind many of his iconic photographs. Mr. Simon is currently raising funds for the project through a kickstarter internet campaign that concludes on July 28, 2013. For more information visit, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2000454548/through-the-lens-celebrating-50-years-of-photograp?ref=home_location.

On Sunday, July 14, Robert Allan Hill, dean of Marsh Chapel and a professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology at Boston University, will be the guest preacher at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs.

Mr. Hill’s religious leadership at Boston University encompasses all of the 17 schools and colleges and the larger community, and is rooted in the historic pulpit of Marsh Chapel, whose Sunday service is broadcast on NPR each Sunday morning at 11 a.m.

Seated on the armrest of a couch in her grandparents’ Edgartown parlor room, Caroline Miskovsky straps a guitar around her back and positions her left hand, lightly manicured, on its neck. She begins to play a song she calls Detour in a full, melodic voice. The song is about a love story that’s taken a wrong turn.

It’s art appreciation night in Oak Bluffs with the Art District Stroll on Saturday, July 13, from 4 to 7 p.m. Seven participating galleries and artistic-leaning shops along Dukes County avenue and nearby will open their doors and invite everyone in to look at and discuss art. Nibbles and wine, naturally, too.

Did you know that America’s deadliest maritime disaster was not the Titanic? Or that an African-American woman refused to give up her seat on a bus 11 years before Rosa Parks did the same?