Pottery, papier-mâché and paintings were on display at Sense of Wonder Creations in Vineyard Haven this Sunday, as budding artists and their families gathered for an afternoon of gallery exhibitions, craft-making, and special guest performances.

Pottery, papier-mâché and paintings were on display at Sense of Wonder Creations in Vineyard Haven this Sunday, as budding artists and their families gathered for an afternoon of gallery exhibitions, craft-making, and special guest performances. The event showcased projects from 38 students in Sense of Wonder’s winter and spring art classes and was, said director and founder Pam Benjamin, “the culmination of the artists’ hard work.”

The region’s top authority on sharks, Greg Skomal, is leaving the Vineyard. After 23 years of working on the Island as the state regional sport fishing biologist, much of that time spent researching the mysteries of the deep, Mr. Skomal is moving up within the state Division of Marine Fisheries.

, The Blob! It’s revolting! It’s oozing! It’s sweeping the Island! Will no cedar tree be spared?

“It looks like something you’d see in a horror movie,” says Polly Hill Arboretum outreach coordinator Karin Stanley referring to Cedar-Apple Rust, a ridiculous looking tree fungus that has seen an unusually robust late spring and early summer here on the Vineyard.

They swallow up roadways, stall cars and block traffic — but still there is a sort of begrudging acceptance of those large puddles that form in familiar areas around the Vineyard after heavy rainfall and thunderstorms.

In Oak Bluffs residents named one well-known puddle off New York avenue “East Chop Lake,” while in Vineyard Haven someone posted a sign reading “Canal Street” on Lagoon Pond Road after a recent rainstorm, a tribute to the frequent flooding that occurs near the post office.

Megan Honey Degree

Megan Lee Honey graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration (marketing) from the University of New Hampshire during a commencement ceremony held on May 22.

Kathleen Coulter Degree

Kathleen Elizabeth Coulter has graduated with AAS degree in food services management from the University of New Hampshire in Durham N.H.

Little Libraries

The Edgartown Library Foundation’s annual summer brunch, A Legacy of Learning, will honor Ted Morgan with a lifetime achievement award at the event on Sunday, July 11, at noon at The Boathouse, part of the Field Club.

A native of Edgartown, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and former selectman for over 30 years, Mr. Morgan embodies a spirit of service. “Ted’s love of Edgartown has led him to contribute in many ways, and always with passion,” said Bailey Norton, who received the lifetime achievement award in 2009.

“It is Sunday, and a very pleasant day. I have read two story books. This is my journal. Goodbye for today.”

So opened six-year-old Laura Jernegan’s journal, in an entry dated Dec. 1, 1868, as she set sail on a three-year sea expedition with her family aboard the whaling vessel Roman.

The Quahaug Seeker By Adam Moore

Sengekontacket rippling gray

Waters had beckoned me to lay

My rusty basket rake upon

The sandy bottom of the pond.

I grasped, as did I deeper wade,

A rope with braided fibers frayed,

And with it tethered bushel wire,

Afloat in rubber tube from tire.

To quahaugs rake, to harvest reap,