Many children are instantly enchanted by the Oak Bluffs institution known as the Flying Horses. But a recently published children’s book, When Horses Fly, gives new meaning to the horses’ flight.

One night as a young girl named Caroline struggles to fall asleep, the Flying Horses carousel appears to her outside her house. Suddenly, one of the painted horses magically flies off the carousel and lets Caroline ride her, giving her a chance to say a final goodbye to her pet horse Nutmeg, who had died months ago.

At 70 years old, Jay Schofield will still be the first one in the room to tell a joke or let out a hearty laugh at someone else’s. And when he shakes your hand and tells you, genuinely, that it’s a pleasure to meet you, you might notice his white “Pay It Forward” bracelet.

Summer Programs

The high school summer program is now registering for its summer session. Activities taking place at the regional high school include sports clinics, arts and crafts programs, robotics, cheerleading, even vocabulary for life classes.

To find out more, visit mvrhs.org/clinics.

Hoecakes and Whirligigs

Hoecakes and Whirligigs Week is about to begin. And what, you may ask, is that?

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is helping kids get in touch with their inner historian, or at least have a lot of fun, by creating arts and crafts days devoted to the work and play of children on Martha’s Vineyard in the late 1700s. Each session will have different activities to try, such as making butter, processing wool from the sheep to fabric, candle making and, beginning Tuesday, July 10, cooking hoecakes.

A new season means new food on Martha’s Vineyard. Across the Island, eateries are shuffling chefs, inventing new menus and changing locations for the summer. Other restaurants are starting from scratch.

Restaurateurs are offering an exciting array of new fare from eggs Benedict to lobster as they gear up to serve summer crowds.

Tea Talk

Tea is good for you. Tea tastes good. But have you ever thought about making it yourself? And we’re not talking about dipping a bag in a cup of hot water here.

On Tuesday, July 10, Holly Bellebuono of Vineyard Herbs is heading to Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury to teach the art of tea blending. Sample some of her teas while learning the secrets of which herbs can help your aching tummy, cure insomnia or stop the flu.

The talk is from 1 to 3 p.m.

Next week, each day from July 9 to July 13, Mark Bullen will hold master classes in landscape painting. The classes are from 2 to 6 p.m. and cost $125 per day.

The Vineyard Playhouse gets going this weekend with three very different performances, at three very different locations, too.

Bekah Brunstetter was feeling lackluster about her play last week. She had already completed a first draft, but there were still kinks to work out.

“I told her to go have a lobster roll with it or something,” said Brooke Hardman Ditchfield, the co-founder and producer of New Writers, New Plays, a part of the Vineyard Arts Project. “She sent me a picture of herself with her open notebook at the Edgartown lighthouse that said, ‘We’re in love again.’”

When the Edgartown Federated Church choir sang their first notes at a church service in Padua, Italy on April 15, they heard something they don’t usually hear on the Vineyard — their own voices reverberating back to them along the endless walls and high ceilings of the Basilica, sometimes for as long as eight seconds.

The choir was performing in St. Anthony’s Basilica in Padua, Italy, in front of a crowd of 1,000, as part of their ten-day tour of Northern Italy.