Picture This: Author Molly Bang Ignites Arts a la Carte Discussions
Arts a la Carte, a new children’s arts discussion series at the Featherstone Center for the Arts, will kick off this Thursday with a bang: a Molly Bang, that is.
Amanda Williams
Patriotism and the American dream are themes in William Baker’s very personal album of original music, released at a party last weekend at the Baker home in Oak Bluffs.
Mr. Baker, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and his wife Bettye, hosted a crowd of roughly 160 to celebrate the release of Come Home America, We Love You.
On an overcast and windy Sunday afternoon, which was once a sunny beach morning, the last of the diehards are filtering off of State Beach. Most daring of them all are those who decide that after a day of sunning they will accept the traditional challenge of jumping off Big Bridge, the second bridge on Beach Road from Oak Bluffs to Edgartown.
Despite the grey skies, seasoned swimmers recognize this sort of weather: the air is cool, the water is a clear, dark green, and the August sea is warm.
Saturday night at PikNik and beats are spinning from a deejay’s turntables, blaring outside the bounds of the gallery’s backlot. A crowd in their taste-maker threads, eating from the retro the ArtCliff Diner truck, is gathered in small town Oak Bluffs to see cityscapes. The scene at PikNik’s Urban Show demonstrated the transience of the urban mindset, its ability to be transplanted even to a mostly rural Island.
Sandy Pratt and Dolly Campbell, manager and assistant manager of the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Thrift Shop, are cutting prices in an attempt to clear as much merchandise from the store as they can. They need to make way for the yearly Chicken Alley Art Show.
The event, in its eighth year, was conceived by Olga Hirshhorn, whose late husband Joseph Hirshhorn founded the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
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.
On a foggy and windy Sunday in Aquinnah, 14-year-old Islander Luc Woodard stands at the order window of the Cliffs’ newest establishment, Faith’s Seafood Shack and Sushi Bar, faithfully serving out the responsibilities of his first job. He shirks a calculator, practicing his addition while making out a receipt for a lunch of varied seafood dishes. This is the tail end of an unexpected late afternoon rush, and yet, Luc, ever enlivened by the customer interactions, continues affably.