Art
Art for Kids
Art for Kids with Mickey Stone is a new program at the M.M. Stone Gallery at 671 State Road in West Tisbury. Opening this week, weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the summer season offers classical art classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and design.
Make a reservation or just drop in. Cost is $15 an hour per student with all materials included. For details, call 508-693-0396 or e-mail [email protected].
Piano Restoration Company
Welcomes Visitors Sunday
Stanwood & Company invites the public to visit the piano workshop at 50 Lamberts Cove Road, West Tisbury, on Sunday, July 6, for its first-ever open house in celebration of 28 years of service, tuning and restoring pianos on the Island. The workshop will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visitors can meet the staff, view and play a newly restored vintage Mason & Hamlin piano, and learn about pianos and the history of Stanwood & Company.
Grace Potter is two hours into her summer tour and she’s already laughing. The woman who throws herself at a Hammond B-3 organ with a force that can only be described as feral retains her cheerful sense of rock and roll social awareness.
“Yeah, we’ve got a new vehicle,” she reports. “A sprint-er.”
By CYNTHIA COWAN
Hospitality in a Pan
What is it with the pineapple as the universal symbol of hospitality? They don’t look or feel particularly inviting, and they aren’t very user friendly. While the sweet, tropical taste is lovely, it is far from warm and welcoming like, say, a cup of coffee. So why the pineapple brass knockers, doorbells, finials, bed posts and candelabra?
The litany of complaints of the squeezed middle class is familiar.
Three million jobs gone overseas this decade. People working all their lives on the promise of pensions they don’t get. Declining availability of health care. Parents believing, for the first time in U.S. history, that their children will not do as well as they did.
“Everyone knows that recitation,” said Philip Dine.
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years in Manhattan. Her uncle Abe requires assistance to keep their landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Through Mott (Pequot’s general manager) she’s met Quincas (a Brazilian) and the rest of Pequot’s staff. Her Uncle Abe has an intense loathing of Richard Moby, the CEO of Broadway, an off-Island landscaping business.