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Art and Garden Stroll in Edgartown
For all the sights and sounds that delight the eyes and ears of the Vineyard’s summer visitors, it is a rare event that brings pleasure to multiple senses simultaneously. But today, August 14, visitors to the beautiful gardens of the Decorator Show House in Edgartown will be pleased to hear the chirping of birds and smell the sweetness of the garden’s healthy blossoms as they stroll among the paintings, prints and sculptures of a great many Island artists.
The year is 1980. Two men meet from wildly different backgrounds. J.B. Riggs Parker is a Philadelphia lawyer and investment banker who has jumped out of the rat race to move to Martha’s Vineyard. Island native Donald Poole, closing in on his ninth decade, is continuing his lifelong pursuit of building the perfect round wooden lobster pot, in an age when plastic is taking over the industry.
The commercial and recreational fluke season ended this week.
Blood Drive
The next Martha’s Vineyard Community Blood Drive will be on Tuesday, August 18, at the Portuguese American Club on Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs. Hours of donation will be noon to 5 p.m. For information call 781-751-4229.
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, is starting a collaboration with the Medical Reserve Corps on the Island in support of local disaster relief efforts.
Jim Thomas of Oak Bluffs, staff relations manager for the Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, American Red Cross said in a statement: “I am really excited to work with these medical volunteers. Every shelter the Red Cross operates needs trained medical personnel and this will be a great step in expanding the volunteers available for local disasters and bigger events.”
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival concludes on Thursday, August 13, with a performance by the Split Second Piano Duo, comprising Marc Peloquin and Roberto Hidalgo.
Split Second, described by the New York Times as “gifted [and] musically curious,” has been offering works for four hands at one piano and two pianos for over a decade. The program will include works by Bach, Brahms, Virgil Thomson, Frederic Rzewski and David Del Tredici.