In 1866 when the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company built America’s Great Watering Place, they employed the services of the brilliant Robert Morris Copeland, the Boston landscape gardener, to design the layout of Cottage City. It was Erastus P. Carpenter’s genius in identifying Copeland — experienced with rural cemetery design — as an acceptable designer for the influential Camp Meeting Association

The holiday weekend weather was rainy and downright cold for this time of year. Sunday morning’s temperature was a mere 42 degrees. The rhododendrons at the old Foote tennis court (the only clay court remaining in town) were absolutely beautiful this past weekend. Bunny Fales would have been so proud of them.

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The rain sure did find its way to the Island this weekend, but it did not dampen a lot of spirits. There were plenty of people here and I’m sure everyone made the best of it. This weekend is going to be hot. We will see.

Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Nathaniel Garcia and Micah Simmons, who both celebrated their day May 26, and to Kamel Al-Hamid and Mason Cron, who celebrated May 30.

With all the cold and rainy weather it’s as if the seasons have been trying to go backwards. No doubt we’ll be complaining about the heat before long, though. Memorial Day weekend seemed quiet, but since I mostly stayed home, I can’t be sure about that. I was surprised at how many people were still around on Tuesday. Usually there is a lull after the long weekend, but unlike the weather, there is no going backwards as far as the influx of summer.

Interested in finding out the stuff dreams are made of? A psychotherapeutic dream seminar can help you explore the therapeutic potential of your dreams. The small group session will begin and end with a day-long workshop and then will meet for six weekly, two-hour groups.

For Vineyard Little Leaguers, tournament play is a mainstay of the summer when travel teams of All-Stars compete across the Cape each week. Beginning next year, as work progresses on the organization’s Penn Field project in Oak Bluffs, the Vineyard may at last be able to compete as a home team during the summer.

“On the Vineyard, it’s always been that we go off-Island for every tournament,” said Phil Regan, whose twin sons Jared and Jeremy play for the All-Star team in the summer and the Red Sox during the Little League regular season. Mr.

David Rhoderick is a professional musician. He is also a mainframe evangelist for IBM. These may seem like two completely different skills, but to Mr. Rhoderick, both jobs are like chord progressions, they harmonize.

Mr. Rhoderick is the organist at the West Tisbury Congregational Church, a job he secured in April after acting as the church’s interim music director this past winter.

On Sunday June 2 at 4 p.m. the West Tisbury Congregational Church will host a concert featuring Mr. Rhoderick and the church choir.

This past weekend the World Choreography Institute arrived in Edgartown to have a conversation about dance. On the final day of the think tank, dance masters and interested Islanders sat on couches and pillows on the floor in the living room of the Noepe Center for Literary Arts, formerly the Point Way Inn. They were dissecting a recording of George Balanchine’s ballet, Jewels, in particular the second movement of the piece, known as Rubies.

On Saturday, June 1, the Martha’s Vineyard Skate Park Association (MVSPA) will host a fundraiser at the Flatbread Company to raise money for improvements to the skate park. The event will feature live music by Ben Taylor, DCLA, 2nd Power and DJ Ricky Prime.