The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival opens its 2008 season on Thursday, July 24 at 8 p.m. with a performance by the Jupiter String Quartet. The concert will be held at the Chappaquiddick Community Center.
Called by the New York Sun “one of the strongest young string quartets in the country,” the quartet includes violinists Nelson Lee and Megan Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel, and cellist Daniel McDonough.
Delores Stevens, pianist and artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, will join a quintet of musicians from the Music from Salem festival series in two concert performances July 21 and 22.
After a genre-stretching foray into jazz chamber music with Billy Childs and the Infiniti Brass, the society, now at the midpoint of its five-week season, returns to its romantic classical roots with a program of music by Felix Mendelssohn and Cesar Franck.
An Evening with Livingston Taylor at the Tabernacle, his only concert on the Vineyard this summer, will be tomorrow, Saturday, July 19, 8 p.m.
Welcome Grady
Julia Stunkel and Glenn Stalgren of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Grady Patrick Stalgren, on July 3 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Grady weighed 6 pounds at birth.
Hello, Joshua
Susanna Ungar of Edgartown and New York city announces the birth of a son, Joshua Samuel Ungar, born on July 4 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Joshua weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces at birth.
JUNE MANNING
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Arnold Zack and Leslie Haughton Zemsky will have their Show of Landscapes by a Pair of Aquinnah Friends, with the opening reception today at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard at Beetlebung Corner from 5 to 7 p.m.
JANE N. SLATER
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The July full moon is here and the skies are clear enough for us to enjoy the wonderful light. The days may be hot but the evenings are pretty near perfect this week . . . hope you all are enjoying them.
JO-ANN TILGHMAN
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We are constantly reminded that Chappy is a wild and beautiful place that we share with the animals that are found on land and in the waters surrounding our island.
Just such a reminder was sent to me by Chris Kennedy of The Trustees of Reservations in this report of the injured seal pup that was found on the Chappy side of Norton Point Beach on July 6.
RICK HERRICK
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Dr. John A. Hargreaves, son of Jack and Ute Hargreaves, left for Iraq last month armed with a doctorate in biology and a heart filled with idealism. John is part of an assessment team from Texas A& M University that is exploring ways to rehabilitate agriculture in that war-torn country. His specialty is aquaculture.
The Polly Hill Arboretum is full of special trees, but if there is one which is more special than all the rest, according to executive director Tim Boland, it is a magnolia Mrs. Hill planted more than 40 years ago.
What makes it extra special is not its beauty or it rarity, although it is both a gorgeous tree and one which really should not grow in these climes at all; it is the fact that it saved the arboretum.
Indirectly, but nonetheless it did.