Jewelers Design for Men

Jewelers Design for Men

At Saturday’s Dukes County avenue arts district stroll from 4 to 7 p.m. the Men’s Jewelry Collective will be displaying a preview of a much larger group show to take place in August at Pik-Nik in Oak Bluffs. The show will feature mostly local artisans who have turned the tables on their work and interpreted it for the men’s jewelry market — including Rick Hamilton, Beth McElhinney, Paul D’Olympia and Michele Ratte.

Carol Brown Goldberg to Talk About Her Art

The Friends of the Chilmark Public Library presents a slide show and artist talk featuring the new work of Carol Brown Goldberg on Wednesday, July 16, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.

Ms. Goldberg, a Chilmark summer resident since 1984, has been exhibiting in Washington, D.C., for more than 35 years. She is represented by Osuna Art in Bethesda, Md., and Adamar Gallery in Miami, Fla.

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Recalling Chilmark Regular, Paul Moore

THE BISHOP’S DAUGHTER: A Memoir. By Honor Moore. Illustrated. W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. 354 pages. $25.95 hardcover.

In the 1970s, the late Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore Jr. was a Chilmark seasonal visitor. He came to the Island after the death of his first wife, Jenny McKean, and his marriage to Brenda Hughes Eagle who had a Chilmark home. Now his eldest daughter by his first marriage has written a memoir about her own life and the life of her illustrious father.

Diet Center Will Open

Diet Center Will Open

The Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat, which gained national recognition with the release of the publication, 21 Pounds in 21 Days, The Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox, plans to open a new location at 4 Main street in Vineyard Haven in early July.

The new location is designed for walk-in therapeutic treatments as well as an offering of wellness and detox products. More information is available by calling 508-693-0001 or visiting mvholisticretreat.com.

Showcase of Native American Arts, Crafts Features New Artists at Cliffs on Saturday

The Aquinnah Cultural Center will hold its second annual All Native Artisans Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the center, located in the former Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead at the Gay Head Cliffs.

The festival will showcase Native American art from several U.S. locales, as well as traditional native food, artists at work, music and dance performances, said Berta Welch, chairman of the Aquinnah Cultural Center.

On Island Tables

Simple Salad Sensation

By CYNTHIA COWAN

Recent sun and showers worked miracles on home gardens struggling with a cool spring. Spinach and lettuce reached peak picking time seemingly overnight. For a few weeks anyway, gardeners don’t have to rely on Reliable.

If You Screen It, They Will Come: Field of Dreams

If You Screen It, They Will

Come: Field of Dreams

The 2nd annual Baseball Fest will be held Thursday, July 17, at 5:30 p.m. at the baseball field at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.

The event will feature games, batting cages, hot air balloon rides, a radar gun, face painting, and ball park food. Field of Dreams will be shown courtesy of Martha’s Vineyard Film Society on the big screen in the outfield starting at 8 p.m.

Island Art Gallery Shows Excite, Delight

Alison Shaw Gallery Fine are photography of Alison Shaw. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m., or by appointment at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs, tel. 508-696-7429 or online alisonshaw.com.

Current exhibit: Yellow opens Saturday, July 12 with reception 4 to 7 p.m. as part of Dukes County avenue arts district stroll.

Abode Gallery and Shop Paintings, photography and sculpture. Open by appointment at 224 Oak Lane, West Tisbury, tel. 914-830-9288 or online at vineyardabode.com.

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Jabberwocky Art Show Back by Demand

Fifty-five summers ago, a small summer camp began in the northern woods of Vineyard Haven not far from Lake Tashmoo. Only two people staffed it then and a small number of children attended, but that first summer paved a path for many more summers to come.

The path led somewhere that is far from traditional, is never ordinary, but that shines brightly nonetheless. That path led to Jabberwocky.

drumming with Rick

Marching to a Favorite Drummer

V ineyard summer has its own rhythm, measured in tides, sunsets and Rick Bausman’s drums.

Most summer Mondays, State Beach offers all of these, with children’s laughter for a back beat and generously spaced picnic blankets for appreciating the rests. It’s called Drumming on the Beach.

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