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What follows is the list of awards given to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students at the annual Honors Night ceremony, held last night at the high school Performing Arts Center.
Departmental Awards: Faculty
Art: excellence in drawing & painting: Maya Harcourt; excellence in photography & graphics: Truda Silberstein; excellence in 3D design and architecture: Galen Mayhew; excellence in crafts and sculpture: John Tripp.
Traveling from West Chop to Katama without a car? You could hitchhike. But why not just hike it instead?
On Saturday, June 2, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank will celebrate National Trails Day with its annual cross-Island hike, a chance to explore the Island’s many trails and earn some bragging rights in the process.
Alzheimer’s disease is a rapidly growing concern for the U.S. health care system. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, the world’s leading voluntary support base for Alzheimer’s research and coping, the estimated cost of the disease in America will be $200 billion this year. Out of that figure, $140 billion will come from Medicare and Medicaid. By 2050, the cost could increase by nearly 500 per cent.
Ritz Hosts Benefit
A benefit will be held at the Ritz Cafe in Oak Bluffs on Sunday at 3 p.m. for Sophia Periera, an Islander who is battling cancer and must travel for treatments. Tickets are $20 at the door; there will be live music, food and raffles. “Help us help her with her fight against cancer — that’s the slogan,” said Janet King, the owner of the cafe who is helping to organize the event.
Tom Dresser Talk
Author Tom Dresser continues to circumnavigate the Vineyard with readings and discussion of his latest book, Disaster Off Martha’s Vineyard: The Sinking of the City of Columbus. Mr. Dresser’s upcoming stop will take him to the Edgartown Library on Tuesday, June 5 at 7 p.m. The talk is free and sure to sate your interests, but just in case, there’s also complimentary refreshments.
To unenlightened art history students Thomas Hart Benton is the champion of the heartland, a standard bearer for the Midwestern agrarian ideal. But a closer look at his paintings reveals the influence of an Island a world away.