The second annual Buddy Harris Bid Whist Classic was held at the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs on Thursday, August 25. Buddy’s widow, Barbara Harris, committed to continuing his legacy, was thrilled by the attention and interest in the Bid Whist Classic as an annual event in tribute to her late husband. For more than 20 years Buddy incorporated bid whist as a part of his daily routine during his annual two-week vacation in August.

Something there is in the American soul that soars with kites that soar! Poet Joyce Carol Oates wrote those words, but 88-year-old Micki Riddick embodied them at Saturday’s Wind Festival.

It wasn’t just that Micki put down her cane to wander Ocean Park for two hours under her kite, it was the expression on her face as she did it, her son in law following her around as best he could. Micki has been coming to Oak Bluffs for more than 60 years, her daughter Cheryl Riddick Cross said, but this was surely one of her best days here.

Kevin Gover wants to set the record straight on the story of Pocahontas. It may come as a shock to a generation of children who grew up on beloved Disney movies, but the familiar story of the American Indian princess is largely falsified.

David Crohan has been blind from birth, but that hardly kept him from crawling up on his grandmother’s piano bench at the age of two and finding that his fingers could extract marvelous melodies. Within a year he could sing and play a hundred songs from memory.

After an adolescence spent at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, with emphasis on music training, his life became a whirlwind of solo recitals, chamber music performances and concert appearances with symphony orchestras.