The Louisa Gould Gallery welcomes a dynamic jeweler, Gail Nathanson, with a special trunk show this Saturday, July 10 from 3 to 6 p.m.

Vineyard musical favorite Kahoots closed their appearance at Saturday’s Best Festival, held at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs, by noting that they’d just finished “the mellowest set we’ve played in a long time.”

By Land, By Sea

From Gazette editions of July, 1960:

Get in the Trough

PigPen Theatre Company comes clean with Mountain Song, an original play about a carpenter trying to find his daughter’s wedding. It’s a revue for all ages, incorporating original music, custom-made puppets, and creative visual effects.

The Suspense Ends Friday Night

Mary Higgins Clark had yet to write one of her 42 (so far) bestselling books when her fourth baby, Carol, arrived just months after the author sold her first short story. Both bring their pens to the Bunch of Grapes tonight to sign and discuss, in Mary’s case, The Shadow of Your Smile, and in Carol’s case, Wrecked, a new Regan Reilly mystery set on the Cape.

A coming-of-age drama set in Tel Aviv will screen this Sunday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center as part of the Summer Institute’s film series. Eli and Ben was the opening film for the latest Boston Jewish Film Festival.

The Boston Phoenix said Eli and Ben had “ambiguity and edge. Young Eli (Yuval Shevach) and his days of minor school mischief collide with the real world when his architect father, Ben (Lior Ashkenazi), gets busted on what dad says is a framed-up charge of corruption.”

Broadway Nights: Hot Tunes from the Great White Way is the name of an informal public recital tonight by young opera singers from across the country, who will showcase their technique in the midst of an intensive two-week workshop on the Vineyard.

This Friday, July 9, show begins at 8 p.m. On Tuesday, the recital title is Art Songs and Broadway Nights, also at 8 p.m. Both performances are in Studio 3 at Vineyard Arts Project at 215 Upper Main street in Edgartown. The suggested donation is $5.

Genre-blending folkster Martin Sexton will play his only Vineyard concert this summer on Wednesday, August 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the waterfront East Chop Beach Club, to benefit, Friends of mvyradio.

Vineyard old boy Danny Kortchmar produced Mr. Sexton’s 1998 major label debut on Atlantic Records, The American. Mr. Sexton formed his own label shortly after, releasing many awardwinning records including the original live album, Solo, which won last year’s Independent Music Award for Best Live Performance Album.

Ruth Marcus, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board since 2003, will speak on Thursday, July 15, as part of the Summer Institute series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.

A big thank you to Sally and Summer Silverman. They stopped by my vegetable garden on Sunday and gifted me with two beautiful Korean garlic bulb