Community
Crispy vegetable tempura. The Salt and Pepper shaker. Low-fat muffins. These are the things which were not at the first Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair held in West Tisbury 147 years ago.
And here are the things that were: goats for milking, oxen for pulling carts and chickens whose eggs made breakfast in the morning and whose meat went into supper.
Bibliophiles Present Books
The Bibliophiles, Inc., the nation’s longest standing, continuously operating African American reading group, will present a gift of 20 books to the Oak Bluffs Public Library. The presentation marks the beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of the New Jersey-based, not-for-profit book club, and honors four of its retired members.
Tastes of Tashmoo
Months of planning and organizing culminated in a recent party to benefit the Tashmoo Spring Building Preservation Fund.
The event was held at the home of Denys and Marilyn Wortman on Hines Point in Vineyard Haven. Mr. Wortman, a Tisbury selectman, is a member of Tisbury’s Tashmoo Spring Building Preservation Committee. This was the second annual Tastes of Tashmoo fundraiser.
Food and drink were donated by numerous Island businesses.
Anyone who’s ever stumbled upon a hidden gem in the Thrift Shop has experienced the thrill of finding treasure amid the stacks of books, games, clothing, kitchen utensils and other odds and ends. The annual Chicken Alley Art Show, set for this Sunday afternoon and now in its sixth season, offers customers the opportunity to purchase the finest art and craft items culled from the shelves over the past year. The proceeds from the event have grown from $3,000 to $40,000 in five years, with all earnings benefitting Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., a renowned African American literary and history scholar, will be the featured speaker for the eighth annual summer signature event sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Branch of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
The event will be August 17, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center.
African American Lives will be the focus of Dr. Gates’s illustrated presentation.
Island Resident Participates
In UNICEF Fundraiser
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF recently presented the Children’s Champion Award to Red Sox star David Ortiz at the Four Seasons Hotel Boston.
Vineyard resident Nancy Thomas Caraboolad and her husband Geoffrey Caraboolad served on the event committee and were generous sponsors of this year’s event.