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If You Screen It, They Will
Come: Field of Dreams
The 2nd annual Baseball Fest will be held Thursday, July 17, at 5:30 p.m. at the baseball field at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.
The event will feature games, batting cages, hot air balloon rides, a radar gun, face painting, and ball park food. Field of Dreams will be shown courtesy of Martha’s Vineyard Film Society on the big screen in the outfield starting at 8 p.m.
Fifty-five summers ago, a small summer camp began in the northern woods of Vineyard Haven not far from Lake Tashmoo. Only two people staffed it then and a small number of children attended, but that first summer paved a path for many more summers to come.
The path led somewhere that is far from traditional, is never ordinary, but that shines brightly nonetheless. That path led to Jabberwocky.
Goldfish Release
The Trustees of Reservations will sponsor a Great Goldfish Release Party at Mytoi Garden, Chappaquiddick, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 11. The event will include goldfish games, goldfish puzzles and the great goldfish release. Admission is free. More information is available by calling 508-693-7662, extension 16.
Care ALS Benefit
Dilly Walsh, who was recently diagnosed with ALS, and his family are hosting Vineyard Night for Compassionate Care ALS at the Walsh Family home at 320 Middle Road, Chilmark, on Thursday, July 17, from 5 to 9 p.m.
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a fatal, progressive, neuromuscular disease that causes its victims to lose control over hands, feet, arms, legs, neck, tongue, throat and, finally, diaphragm.
Lola’s Adds Lunch
After 15 years in business on Beach Road in Oak Bluffs, Lola’s restaurant has decided to add lunch. The meal will be served on the patio courtyard or in the air-conditioned dining room from noon until 3 p.m.
Lola’s also has starting delivering a choice of five sandwiches with chips and a soda to the Inkwell or first and second bridge along State Beach by an eco-friendly bicycle delivery boy.
More information is available by calling 508-693-5007.
The three-day 85th annual Edgartown Yacht Club regatta got off to a sailor’s start yesterday with a fresh breeze. Under clear blue skies and perfect sailing conditions, more than 150 sailboats competed for prizes in the Edgartown outer harbor.
Today and tomorrow is a continuation of the one-design sailing off the Edgartown lighthouse with boats from as small as the Optimist, an 8-foot sailing dinghy, to as large as the 30-foot Shields sailboat.