Books & Ideas
Old Sculpin Classes
The Old Sculpin Gallery and Studio School, located on Dock street near the Chappy ferry in Edgartown, will open for Memorial Day weekend with a show featuring selected works from the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association’s permanent collection of Vineyard art. Works from 1890 to the present will be on display, as well as a group members’ exhibition.
Registration for the studio school’s children’s art camp will also begin today. For details, call 508-627-4881.
Quarterboard Lecture
Sail MV’s final spring maritime presentation of Quarterboards with J.P. Uranker is scheduled for Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m. The presentation will take place at Mr. Uranker’s studio at 179 County Road in Oak Bluffs where he will demonstrate and discuss the different designs of quarterboards and the techniques for carving them. For details or to make a reservation call 508-696-7644 or visit sailmv.com.
To Date: A native Islander (“Call me Becca”) has returned home after many years away, to help her unstable Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a monomaniacal fear and loathing of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesaler, Broadway Nursery. In early 2009, Moby unscrupulously took over one Island landscaping business and undercut five others, thus re-invigorating Abe to try to “destroy” Moby. To further complicate matters, Moby is engaged to Abe’s ex-wife, Gwen.
The Island Alpaca Company is introducing a new Sunday morning program called Island Alpaca Junior Discovery, wherein children ages 8 to 18 can learn all about this most noble creature. Participants will find out all where the alpaca come from and why they are important to humans. Educational opportunities include hands-on activities, such as barn chores, alpaca feeding and care, halter training, and possibly, a chance to witness the birth of a new herd member.
The Tisbury School library celebrated School Library Media Month with a special reading incentive program called Worlds Connect @ Your Library. As well as reading literature set in varied locales, from Penda Diakite’s I Lost My Tooth in Africa, to Eric Carle’s saga of 10 Little Rubber Ducks, students have had the opportunity to read to a literacy dog.
Sometime in the summer of 1970, a young Jim Athearn stood on Main street in Edgartown and faced one of the most important decisions of his life. The 22-year-old aspiring farmer had just received a few stern words from a market owner who had told him that his corn — the first crop he had ever grown and sold to market — was no good. His ears were full of worms, the owner told him. The words stung like a swarm of angry hornets.