Art
Mangia, Mangia
A slice of Italy, in particular its food, will be touching down on the Island next week on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 5 p.m.
The folks at the Vineyard Grocer will be holding their second cooking class and dinner focusing on various regions of Italy.
Never Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
The Martha’s Vineyard High School culinary arts program is a great training ground for future chefs — hopefully future Island chefs. It’s a hands-on learning experience of all facets of the restaurant business: The students not only prepare and cook the food, they learn how to present and serve it too.
Waxing Poetic
Chilmark resident Donald Nitchie and Oak Bluffs resident Barbara Peckham will read their poems in honor of Ms. Peckham’s new book A Jar of Summer and Other Poems. The reading will take place on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. at the West Tisbury Free Public Library.
Before settling permanently on Martha’s Vineyard, Barbara Peckham served as the Society and Women’s Page Editor of the Journal Courier in New Haven, Conn. She has written radio and television commercials and was an English teacher for many years.
The Eagle Has Landed
The Eagle is the largest tall ship flying the Stars and Stripes and the only square-rigger in U.S. Government service. Currently, it is celebrating its 75th anniversary of offering generations of Coast Guard Academy cadets, and more recently officer candidates, a unique leadership experience at sea.
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Lt. Cmdr. Jorge Martinez, the executive officer of the Eagle, will be the featured speaker at Sail MV’s winter dinner/lecture series.
The cost for the evening is $20.
Let’s Move
Let’s Move Martha’s Vineyard, a community health initiative funded through the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and the Farm Neck Association, will be starting a free, small pilot program that will run for three months from March 13 to June 12. The committee invites people who may be concerned about their weight and that of a child to contact us. The committee plans to assemble 10 teams of three people who are concerned about their weight.
Dr. Gerry Yukevich, a partner in Dr. Michael Jacob’s Walk-In Clinic on State Road in Vineyard Haven, is often called upon to help patients quit smoking.
He said in a recent interview, “Our job is easier these days because smoking is so frowned upon publicly, peer pressure eliminates it for most people.”
Now the medical community is targeting the hard-core smokers who still refuse to budge from the habit.