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Marjory Potts met Frances Perkins purely by accident. Buried in books at the Vineyard Haven Library, researching an article she was writing about another subject, she came across a biography of Ms. Perkins, and all but lost interest in the subject at hand.
Ms. Perkins was the Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Roosevelt, and the first female member of the U.S. Cabinet. In her day, she was perceived as a serious figure, even grim. But as Mrs. Potts would quickly discover, she was actually anything but.
For four days this weekend, worshipping at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs will take a different form. The light that flows into the historic church will not only be illuminating people in the pews, but the ballerinas, hip-hop artists, modern and belly dancers worshipping the art of dance at the annual Built on Stilts festival.
The Vineyard represents centuries of personal tragedies, triumphs and the humdrum operation of day-to-day Island life.
Vitamin C with Carbs
It’s out of the pulpit and into the peach pit this Saturday at the West Tisbury Congregational Church’s annual peach festival. From noon to 4 p.m. gorge on peach ice cream, peach shortcake, and peach smoothies on the church lawn. Peach preserves are also available for take home.
So get reunited with Peaches and Herb, run off with James and the Giant Peach (don’t forget to squash Spiker and Sponge along the way) and get peachy keen with this Island tradition. For details, call 508-693-2842.
Center for Pizza Eating
Martha’s Vineyard’s Flatbread Company is different from other pizzerias in two ways: first, the restaurant uses locally grown organic ingredients, and second, it holds a benefit night every Tuesday, when the restaurant donates $3.50 for every flatbread sold between 5 and 10 p.m. to a local nonprofit organization. Tuesday, August 24, the proceeds will benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living.
Flatbread is located at Nectar’s at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport.
Yoga Class Gives Back
Bend it for the Bard, and all the other arts, by taking Johanna Hynes’s vinyasa yoga class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Vineyard Arts Project, 215 Upper Main street Edgartown (parking available). Drop-in fee is $20, kids $12, and 20% of the proceeds go to benefit Vineyard Arts Project.