The idea for Jaws on the Water exhibit at the Carnegie Heritage Center was born from two anniversaries occurring at the same time: the 50th anniversary of the release of Jaws and the 50th year of the Vineyard Preservation Trust.   

The Carnegie Heritage Center is one of the Vineyard Preservation Trust’s properties and in addition to the new exhibit opening Friday, it will be hosting a sold-out event on Saturday featuring recently retired Edgartown Harbor master Charlie Blair, who was a martime consultant on the movie. 

The exhibit will be on display until June 27. 

The history of the Young Women’s Christian Association is presented in a new exhibit at the Carnegie Heritage Center in Edgartown, as part of the YWCA’s 165th anniversary celebration.

This year’s Gifts of Art show and sale at the Carnegie in Edgartown opened Thursday with a reception for 10 local painters whose smaller-scale works are sized and priced for gift-giving.

In a ceremony well attended by donors, volunteers and curious Islanders, the Vineyard Trust dedicated and opened the Carnegie Saturday morning.

The Carnegie, the newly rebranded name for the old Carnegie Library on North Water street in Edgartown, is set for a grand reopening next month.

The Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust will now be known as Vineyard Trust.

The new Edgartown Library is finished and the shelves have arrived. But what of the historic Carnegie building that will be left behind?