Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

May 6 60 42 .00

May 7 66 51 .00

May 8 65 46 .00

May 9 59 49 .00

May 10 62 47 .03

May 11 52 47 .01

May 12 58 48 Trace

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 55º F.

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Question: What can make a tent full of women happy without any men in sight? (Actually there were a few men here and there, including man-about-town Tom Dresser). Answer: Tea sandwiches, fashion and wild hats.

The second annual Featherstone Garden Tea Party and Fashion Show event got rolling last Saturday afternoon.

The ringed planet, Saturn, is easy to spot rising in the eastern sky after sunset tonight, near the gibbous moon. The planet resides in the zodiacal constellation Virgo. Saturn has resided in the constellation for almost two years. Saturn is not far from the bright blueish star Spica, the brightest star in Virgo.

Those Who Serve Speak

As part of their new publication, Those Who Serve: Martha’s Vineyard and World War II, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is hosting a book signing and reading on Saturday, May 14 at 3 p.m. Readers will include veterans Hector Asselin, Mev Good, Ted Morgan, Tom Hale and Nelson Smith whose oral histories appear in the book recorded by the museum’s oral history curator, Linsey Lee.

The entire world is coming to Martha’s Vineyard. Yes, that is the way it feels each summer as the full ferries empty out onto Five Corners. But this is another event called One World Day taking place at the high school and celebrating the many diverse cultures of the world. It is a showcase of the multifaceted talents of the Island community.

It’s time to get your two best buddies, or at least your two best b’ball playing buddies, and head out to the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club for their annual three on three basketball tournament. The tournament takes place Saturday, May 21 from noon to 6 p.m. Last team standing gets big-time bragging rights.

Falmouth Academy will host an Admissions Open House on Saturday, May 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. for families interested in learning more about the school.

Falmouth Academy is an academically rigorous, independent day school for college-bound students in grades 7 through 12. Visitors to the open house will learn why Falmouth Academy is a school with no back rows and how a philosophy of active engagement by all students determines not only the layout of the classrooms but, more importantly, the way students learn.

Creative Writing Classes

The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing will once again be offering classes at its summer seminar taking place during the week of July 18. The institute has also added a one week summer camp this year for high school students. The writers’ camp will run July 11 through 15 and be held at the charter school.

Yankee’s Best Picks

Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England has named 81 local establishments in Massachusetts as Best of New England — Editors’ Choice winners for 2011. Four of them are on the Vineyard: Mansion House in Vineyard Haven (best spa mud); Edgartown and West Tisbury (best striper fishing); Net Result in Vineyard Haven (best picnic sushi); and Smoke ’N’ Bones in Oak Bluffs (best Island barbecue).

The magazine is sold on newstands.

When Elizabeth Murray was 16 years old, she had already seen far too much of the unforgiving side of life, and she had begun to ask herself if what she knew was all there was. What she knew was that she’d recently buried her mother, who died of AIDS, in a donated pine box with her name misspelled on it. Mr. Murray’s addict father, who was suffering from AIDS himself in a homeless shelter elsewhere in New York city, could not attend. Ms. Murray herself had dropped out of high school and was homeless.