Community
It’s not every day that you can walk into the Grange Hall and hear the steel drums of the Drum Workshop, Inc. plinking in one corner, the delicate strumming of the berimbau from the Angola Center for Capoeira drifting in from another, and artists, artisans and performers chatting about the various projects they have on the horizon.
Windemere Auction Party Tonight
Nestled amidst the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is the elderly housing wing known as Windemere. In a way, the hospital sort of hugs the complex, literally encircling the building, and figuratively by giving the residents the much needed care they deserve.
But living at Windemere is not about staying at the hospital. Rather, residents take part in the abundance of activities the Vineyard has to offer. One of the ways this is possible is through the annual Windemere live auction event.
The ghosts and haunts have been quiet of late on the Island but just when you thought it was safe to go back to the graveyard, the joint is about to get bone-rattling busy.
That’s right, no more cozy winter potlucks for our Island ghosts bored with scaring the local residents because, well, we scare them back. They are now ready to greet the summer visitors and take them on a ferry ride of another sort, to the grand beyond. Consider yourself forewarned. Perhaps best to go with a seasoned guide.
Arts on the Vineyard
Arts on the Vineyard are everywhere, but starting this Sunday, June 12, the place to go for one-stop arts shopping begins again.
For such a small place, the Island has a surprisingly diverse people — a native tribe, a long-established African American community, waves of Portuguese speakers — and so for its annual Juneteenth celebration, the Martha’s Vineyard NAACP has asked several Islanders to share their interracial experiences here.
There’s wonderful and then there’s the Sense of Wonder, which is like wonderful to the nth power.
Sense of Wonder is an arts camp for kids run by Pam Benjamin that succeeds in every aspect, including making adults jealous they can’t join in on the fun.
Well, this weekend everyone’s invited to drift back to childhood and remember when imaginary friends kept you company and hours spent drawing, tongue tucked tightly between the lips in concentration, was the only item on the day’s agenda.