Renee Balter will be the featured artist for the month of April at the Vineyard Haven Public Library as part of their Art in the Stacks program.

Have you made plans yet for the April school vacation? The Minnesingers have — they are headed to Croatia to perform five concerts.

During last Thursday’s IMP rehearsal, there was some hesitation about Hansel. The game was called “Happily Ever After . . . Or Not,” and the improv group of teenage actors were waiting for the narrator, in this case Ashley Girard, to begin the story.

The little boy on the garden gate

Sings and swings.

He dreameth not of the march of fate,

How the hours will glide, and the heart must wait

For the prize to which it clings.

When artist Margot Datz begins a new project she finds it hard to stop. “Until someone rips me off the wall I’m there,” she said on Wednesday morning at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. Although no one is coming to rip Ms. Datz off the wall, her brother Stephen Datz is on hand to “help her out the door,” he said. Good thing, too, as this weekend there will be a wedding held at the church. Scaffolding and bridal gowns do not really mix. But magnificently-restored murals serving as a backdrop for wedded bliss definitely do.

long long long legs

pink pulsating noses

smooth hooves smelling of sweetness

they were the embodiment

of beauty in life