In the morning Diana Reilly puts on her garden gloves and travels around the Island with a gardening crew.
At night she turns into DJ Di and makes dance parties bloom with her beats.
“I’m like a vampire,” she joked.
Leading this double life makes for long days, but for Ms. Reilly it is worth it, and she is not alone.
“By day we are doing our money thing and by night we are swinging our art.”
Twisting, jumping, swinging, and fish juggling. That’s how Dic Wheeler addresses environmental issues.
Dazzling an audience with circus magic while advocating for environmental awareness, Mr. Wheeler has people laughing and learning at the same time.
Soon after the YMCA opened its doors in the spring of 2010, the Martha’s Vineyard Teen Center moved from its location at Cottagers’ Corner in Oak Bluffs to a temporary spot in the Y’s basement. Tony Lombardi, the Teen Center director, thought they were going to relocate there for a few years before moving on to a new location. Then the Alexandra Gagnon Foundation, who also funded Cottagers’ Corner, came up with a plan.
As the cool winds roll in, the beaches become less crowded and the sun begins to set even before dinner, the Living Local Harvest Festival arrives just in time to celebrate this coming of autumn and winter. Gone are the summer fairs with their fried food, greasy hot dogs and rides that make you dizzy. Enter instead a festival that seems more to stroll as well as to nourish.
Dr. Al Hurwitz remembers his first scribble.
“I was about four years old and we moved into a new house. The first thing I saw were all these wonderful white plaster walls. I had a pencil and I began drawing, I can still see the images of what I drew My mother was quite alarmed, but my father thought it was very amusing because it was all doomed to be papered.”
The dining room at Tony and Abigail McGrath’s home in Oak Bluffs is delicately set up with gold-rimmed china, wine glasses, and napkins wrapped with yellow roses. First course: Clam chowder made from scratch.
“For the newcomers, I’m just going to suggest that you pace yourself because, well, Abigail can cook,” said Kimberly Ellis, an artist staying this past week at the Renaissance House artist retreat run by Ms. McGrath.
