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The Edgartown Federated Church will continue hosting its annual chowder suppers on July 9, 16, 23 and 30; and August 6 and 13, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at the Federated Church Parish House on South Summer street in Edgartown. The profits from the past two years each exceeded $1,000, which is given to the Island Food Pantry to help purchase goods not donated, sorely needed to help families on the Island during the winter months.
Steve Masterson, an arborist at the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury, is raising money to ride in the STIHL Tour des Trees, a week-long, 500-mile, cross-country cycling event. Considered America’s largest fundraiser for tree research, the tour benefits the Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund, an international charitable organization.
The Hon. Marie Laurence JocelynLassegue, Haiti’s Minister of Women’s Affairs and Rights, will visit the Island from July 15 to 19 as the guest of the volunteers of Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti Project and PeaceQuilts, two Vineyard humanitarian organizations working to relieve poverty in Haiti. She will be accompanied by a small delegation, all here to support the Island to Island Solidarity initiative.
Tom DeMont, 68, has a quiet time in the morning when he sits and makes scrimshaw. It is a serene opening to the day. For 32 years, Mr. DeMont has sat in the quiet of the day to sketch scenes of the whaling era on a material similar to whale teeth. He is an Island-born artist, a craftsman, a folksinger, lyricist and gallery owner.
Mr. DeMont runs Edgartown Scrimshaw Gallery, a fine arts store filled with items made in a lifetime of creative pursuits.
N ectar’s nightclub opened its doors last week to an exuberant, mainly local crowd with a kickoff show featuring the sounds and songs of Island musicians. Some of the multitude attended in tribute to the Hot Tin Roof, the storied Vineyard nightclub of the late seventies and early eighties that once thrived in that same space. A younger set came out to celebrate the survival of the largest live music venue on the Island.
Awards and Recognition
The Massachusetts Restaurant Association Educational Foundation recently honored Kathleen Coulter of Edgartown as one of 31 recipients of its ninth annual Making the Future Bright scholarship awards gala. Ms. Coulter attended Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and is currently attending the University of New Hampshire. Her scholarship sponsor is US Foodservice-Boston Group.
At its annual Recognition Day June 13 Falmouth Academy gave awards to the following Vineyard students: