A screening of an acclaimed documentary film about the SS United States and a special tribute to the late Walter Cronkite will take place in Edgartown on August 12. The event is a benefit for the SS United States Conservancy, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the SS United States, widely considered the crowning maritime achievement of the 20th century. Mr. Cronkite will be honored as the SS United States Conservancy’s first National Flagship Champion.

As director of alcohol and other drug services at Harvard University, Ryan Travia sees himself as a community organizer.

On Wednesday, he is coming to speak with parents in the Vineyard community, where in June, tragically and not for the first time, teen drinking fueled a fatal car crash.

His presentation is Alcohol 101, in which he reports on current trends in young adult alcohol use, based on research findings from AlcoholEDU, an online program used at colleges and universities nationwide.

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society has appointed Richard L. Berkley and Susan Kantrowitz to its board of directors.

A seasonal Island resident, Ms. Kantrowitz is responsible for all legal matters affecting the WGBH Educational Foundation, including the production contracting process and the negotiation and administration of national collective bargaining agreements with actors, writers and musicians. She also oversees the WGBH media library and archives, which manages all aspects of film research and the licensing in and out of stock footage.

The popular children’s musician and PBS Kids cohost of SteveSongs comes to the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs for a free family concert on Thursday, August 13.

For the first few pages of Paul Schneider’s Bonnie and Clyde, The Lives Behind The Legend, we see tall, willowy, sultry Faye Dunaway as the infamous gangster moll, Bonnie Parker, and we picture tall, broad-shouldered Warren Beatty as her outlaw boyfriend, Clyde Barrow. It doesn’t take long for the author to get the real people back in focus: Bonnie is petite (under five feet tall), more adorable than sultry, and Clyde also is short but a head taller than his energetic pip-squeak girlfriend.

The Oak Bluffs library welcomes Lou Berger, seasonal resident and former head writer for Sesame Street for 11 years, for a reading of his book, The Elephant Wish on Tuesday, August 11 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The book is a modern fairy tale, in which Eliza Prattlebottom, on her eighth birthday, makes a wish: “Oh, I wish that an elephant would come and take me away!” Two days, six hours, thirty-seven minutes and nine seconds later, Eliza’s wish comes true.