Art
Around the Farm Neck links, Don Wilks likes when fellow golfers find out he’s an artist. “They always say, ‘You’re not the kind of guy I expect . . .’ ” This may be, Mr. Wilks points out, because he is neatly turned out and he does not have long hair.
Hop in With the Kids
Frogs and Their Habitats, a crafts and nature activity for kids at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8, is the first in the Edgartown Public Library’s series of summer reading programs. Children will learn about frogs, including the Vineyard’s own famous pinkletinks, in this program, and in the crafts activity they’ll learn to fold paper frogs that actually jump. The afternoon will also feature an “infotainment” program, How to Dress Like a Frog.
Friday Conversation
On July 11, Jim McLaurin, a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, will speak in the Friday Conversations program from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Oak Bluffs Senior Center. He will show a video about the group’s service in World War II. More information is available by calling 508-693-9771.
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.
Environmental artist Terry Bastian will be on Island July 8 to install the Blue Wave Project, his temporary public art installation about global climate change. Mr. Bastian’s artwork is a Cristo-like piece of blue fabric arranged to look like a wave, marking where the sea may be in these communities 100 years from now if nothing is done about global warming today. He is marking cultural treasures in each community that may be lost, challenging the people to imagine how to save them.
ISLAND LIFE: A CATALOG OF THE BIODIVERSITY ON AND AROUND MARTHA’S VINEYARD. By Allan R. Keith and Stephen A. Spongberg. Published in cooperation with the Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, Mass. 2008.