Musical Mondays

The jazz, funk and blues guitar of Jon Zeeman and Friends will kick off Musical Mondays at Featherstone Center for the Arts on June 28.

It’s BYO lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket to the greens of the arts campus on Barnes Road, not far from the blinker in Oak Bluffs, each Monday evening from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults or $5 with Our Island Club card; children are free.

Children’s Theatre

Island Theatre Workshop’s Children’s Theatre summer program opens for the season on Monday, June 28, at the Sailing Camp Park on the Lagoon in Oak Bluffs. There will be four two-week sessions for ages 6 to 18 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Nurturing self-expression with immersion in voice, movement and acting training in a unique and supportive environment, students rehearse and perform an original play at the end of each session, with the support and guidance of experienced staff.

All the best quips contain a core oftruth. British biologist J.B.S. Haldane, who spent a lifetime studying the diversity of nature, had this classic answer when someone asked him what he had learned over his long years of study: “God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

Enjoy the fruits of their labors, not to mention the vegetables and beef too.

It’s the grand opening celebration of Morning Glory Farm’s new farmstand.

If you’ve watched the construction you know this ain’t your grandmama’s farm stand no more.

The fun starts on Saturday at 11 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m.

There will be hayrides, farm tours, book signings, pony rides, and of course, food. The grill will be smoking with Island-grown beef burgers, plus soup and salad made with fresh picked veggies.

The current in the Edgartown harbor has changed again.

It has been three years since the Norton Point opening connected Katama Bay to the sea, and the water movement through the harbor has gained another measure of unpredictability: currents running through Edgartown harbor are far greater than tidal.

Plus, the three years of increased current has changed the way boaters use the harbor and the way bathers use the beaches.

But I Wanted a Baby Brother, by Kate Feiffer, illustrated by Diane Goode, Paula Weisman Books, $16.99

Two books from Little Pickle Press by Rana DiOrio, one illustrated by Chris Hill, the other by Chris Blair, both $16.95.

A child’s book works best when it operates on two levels, appealing to both child and parent. All the classics — Wind in the Willows, the Eloise and Madeline sagas, and Winnie the Pooh, accomplish this. But at bottom, the best books in this category impart something for children and grownups to ponder.

For the sixth year in a row, the sun shone on the festivities of Polly Hill Arboretum’s summer solstice celebration, held Saturday afternoon on the arboretum grounds in West Tisbury.

Tonight’s full moon, the Summer Moon, resides in the zodiacal constellation Sagittarius. This moon is the southern-most full moon of the year.

Call them critics-in-training. Children go behind the camera, videotaping kids' reactions to films.

What a thrill to see and hear grasshopper sparrows on the Vineyard for the first time in about 10 years! Twenty years ago I could see and hear grasshopper sparrows in the fields around our Chilmark farm house at Quenames no longer. Maybe I will be lucky enough to have them back again, as the birds we recently saw were in a neighboring field at Quansoo Farm. We saw three birds. Hopefully they were three males whose mates were sitting on their round, throne-like nests. Built at the base of clumps of grass, the grasshopper sparrow nest cup is upright with a canopy of grasses domed over the top. The results are a nest that is well camouflaged. However, one worries that as ground nesters they could easily be preyed upon by skunks, raccoons and feral cats.