The fall season of adult classes at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs begins this week, and includes three new ceramics classes: Basic Hand-Building and Wheelthrowing to Make Household Items with ceramic artist and teacher Frank Creney is on Wednesday nights, and Washington Ledesma will teach Hand-Building Ceramic Tiles on Tuesday evenings, as well as a Ceramic Gift Giving Workshop coming up in December. These additions are making for a very ceramic season at Featherstone. Additionally, Frank Folts Jr.

In June my sister, Carole Cowan Dunscombe, died at the age of 51. My parents survived her as no parent should have to do. The timeliness of the Children’s Memorial at Edgartown Light couldn’t have been any better and my parents were able to have a stone placed there in her memory. Carole couldn’t get down to the lighthouse due to her wheelchair, however she spent many days looking out on the light from Memorial Wharf.

Writer Ben Greenman so craves human contact as part of his routine that he edits the front section of The New Yorker.

His fiction, including his latest novel, Please Step Back, he boxes off in the mornings and evenings at his Brooklyn home, between raising his five and eight year-old sons. Then he takes the subway into Manhattan and begins to put together the listings and features that make up Goings On, the weekly events guide of the globally-renowned magazine. It’s a job he has held for 10 years.