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Frances Perkins Reunion
Mount Holyoke College is holding a Frances Perkins Scholars reunion the weekend of May 28 to 30 on the campus in South Hadley.
Alumnae are invited to contact the college for further information and participation in any of the programs including the Japanese tea ceremony and a LiteraTea to take place on Saturday, May 29 between 3 and 5 p.m. íFP scholars will read from original works in poetry, short stories and excerpts from novels. This last program is co-chaired by Vikki Merton and Wendy Arnell Brophy.
Already the new YMCA building on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road fits right in with the neighborhood, flanked by the Martha’s Vineyard Arena on one side, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services and the skate park on the other side, and the regional high school across the road.
And if your vision of a YMCA is rooted in past memories of dank, mostly windowless, poorly heated concrete buildings, look again. The Vineyard’s new YMCA is a marvel of open space and sunlight.
Senior Health and Fitness
Island Elderly Housing is celebrating National Senior Health and Fitness Day for our residents on Wednesday, May 26 between 10 and 11:30 a.m. at our Woodside 2 community room. There are several fitness activities planned for residents including a walk from 10 to 10:30 a.m., a Wii bowling tournament and a lasso golf round robin tournament.
Garden Club Plant Sale
The Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale and open house on Saturday and Sunday, May 29 and 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the historic Old Mill on Edgartown Road in West Tisbury.
The mill, located across from the Old Mill Pond, has been the home of the club since 1942. A great variety of plants grown in the Garden Club’s greenhouse through the winter will be offered for sale to members and the public.
A family painting of a long-gone square-rigger that has hung in the parlor of an old West Tisbury house for as long as anyone can remember, took a trip this week to San Francisco, to a new permanent home. The painting of the ship Niantic will now reside in the city where the actual ship has rested, most of it burned and buried, for 159 years. The painting will soon be on permanent display in the San Francisco Maritime Museum, which houses a collection of artifacts from the lost ship.
So, you all know about the giant Jack met up that beanstalk, right? But did you know that giant was the reason all those kids ended up in that old woman’s shoe? Here’s how the children themselves explain it, in song:
“The giant, big and mean and mad, made himself a snack of our moms and dads; now they’re gone and deep inside his belly, and we’re in his shoe all wet and smelly.”