Habitat to Hold Auction

Habitat for Humanity will hold its sixth annual More Than Art auction and dinner on Friday, June 27, at 6 p.m. at the Harbor View Hotel, Edgartown. Rick Lee and Susan Klein will conduct a live auction. A silent auction also will be held. Individual tickets are $65. Tables for 10 also are available. Funds will be used toward the construction of the sixth Habitat house on the Vineyard. Reservations and more information are available by calling 508-696-4646.

The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce and the Steamship Authority are seeking volunteers to conduct customer surveys on board the SSA ferries on the Vineyard-Woods Hole route from July 1 through August 23. The goal is to gain customer feedback and market research.

All volunteers will receive complimentary ferry passes at the end of the survey, and their name will be entered into a grand prize giveaway sponsored by the chamber.

By KATE J. CONDE

More than 40 members of the association made the annual trip to our Chappy station recently for the monthly dinner and meeting. Capt. Peter Wells and his crews of Engines 3 and 5 put on a nice spread of meat and vegetable lasagna, Waldorf salad, green salad, and garlic bread. The boys also had a delicious cake in honor of the recent retirement of Capt. Dick Knight.

Holmes Hole Sailors

Begin Summer Season

The Holmes Hole Sailing Association started its summer season of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a tune-up race in the harbor on June 15.

 The weather was cool, with a gray overcast sky and intermittent rain. The wind was east-northeast at about eight to 15 knots. Four skippers posted at the start. The race committee opted for a 5.3-mile course.

Fire Department Benefit

An event to benefit the Tisbury Fire Department is set for Sunday, June 22, at 5 p.m. at Shirley’s Hardware on State Road in Vineyard Haven. The event will include a car show, pig roast and live music. More information is available by calling 508-696-4246.

The Belushi Pisano Gallery kicks off its summer season with a group exhibition of works by many Vineyard artists including the gallery’s director, Jessica Pisano, metal artist Graeme Bradlee, as well as jewelers Andrea Hartman, Ronni Simon and former Island resident Tracy Page Smith. The show also includes hand-formed lamps by Jenik K. Munafo and furniture by John Thayer.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

June 13 80 55 .00

June 14 78 54 .00

June 15 81 58 .09

June 16 65 57 .18

June 17 69 59 .07

June 18 74 52 .00

June 19 75 59 .00

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 70º F.

David Fokos believes that great photography is time full rather than timeless.

He has joined the ranks of elite photographers working in black and white as a result of his belief that the passage of time is necessary to capture images as they are felt by the viewer.

His work is displayed in galleries from West Tisbury to Tokyo.

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. In the first few chapters, Becca reacquainted herself with Island life and through Mott (the general manager) met Quincas (a Brazilian) and the rest of Pequot’s staff. Last week, readers were introduced to Uncle Abe and his hatred of Richard Moby, the chief executive officer of Broadway, an off-Island landscaping business.

On Thursday, June 19, Slowfood Martha’s Vineyard will hold its monthly potluck supper from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. This meeting will focus on planning the group’s summer’s highlight event, a potluck community gathering featuring keynote speaker Michael Pollan.