Community
Goldfish Release
The Trustees of Reservations will sponsor a Great Goldfish Release Party at Mytoi Garden, Chappaquiddick, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 11. The event will include goldfish games, goldfish puzzles and the great goldfish release. Admission is free. More information is available by calling 508-693-7662, extension 16.
If You Screen It, They Will
Come: Field of Dreams
The 2nd annual Baseball Fest will be held Thursday, July 17, at 5:30 p.m. at the baseball field at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.
The event will feature games, batting cages, hot air balloon rides, a radar gun, face painting, and ball park food. Field of Dreams will be shown courtesy of Martha’s Vineyard Film Society on the big screen in the outfield starting at 8 p.m.
The Aquinnah Cultural Center will hold its second annual All Native Artisans Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the center, located in the former Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead at the Gay Head Cliffs.
The festival will showcase Native American art from several U.S. locales, as well as traditional native food, artists at work, music and dance performances, said Berta Welch, chairman of the Aquinnah Cultural Center.
Fifty-five summers ago, a small summer camp began in the northern woods of Vineyard Haven not far from Lake Tashmoo. Only two people staffed it then and a small number of children attended, but that first summer paved a path for many more summers to come.
The path led somewhere that is far from traditional, is never ordinary, but that shines brightly nonetheless. That path led to Jabberwocky.
Care ALS Benefit
Dilly Walsh, who was recently diagnosed with ALS, and his family are hosting Vineyard Night for Compassionate Care ALS at the Walsh Family home at 320 Middle Road, Chilmark, on Thursday, July 17, from 5 to 9 p.m.
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a fatal, progressive, neuromuscular disease that causes its victims to lose control over hands, feet, arms, legs, neck, tongue, throat and, finally, diaphragm.
At the very end of Main street Tuesday night, a bright green Tisbury fire truck stood with nothing to do and nowhere to go until one small boy came along and, too shy to do so on his own, had his father ask if he could climb up into it.