Name: Jakie Glasgow

Age: 6

School: First grade at the Chilmark School

Siblings: Noah, age 8

Pets: None

Something new you’re learning: How to read.

New place you would like to explore: The desert.

New food you recently tried: Mom’s new brownies.

Favorite thing about living on Martha’s Vineyard: That I don’t have to wear a uniform to school.

What do you want to do/be when you grow up: A scientist.

Name: Noah Glasgow

Age: 8

School: Going into third grade at Chilmark Elementary School

Poetry Reading

Two poetry teachers from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing are sharing their work tonight, July 19, at the West Tisbury Public Library.

Leah Nielsen’s first book, No Magic, was published by Word Press in 2005. She is currently at work on a manuscript that explores the medical and emotional complexities faced by chronic pain patients.

Harry Potter Party

For those who haven’t been able to score a ticket to the latest Harry Potter movie, or who have seen the movie eight times already over the weekend and are driving your family nuts and need now to immerse yourself in the arena of fellow fanatics, the Edgartown Library has just the ticket.

A Harry Potter party is being held Wednesday, July 20, from 4 to 6 p.m.

The event is for children of all ages and will include snacks, wand making and games. Costume dress is also encouraged.

By SHIRLEY MAYHEW

I have lived in West Tisbury for almost 64 years — what is there not to love? I have lived in the house we built on the north side of Look’s Pond for 54 years, and although I can no longer enjoy the activities in and around the water, I can still see it, and my memories are vivid.

EGREGIOUS ERROR

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Stunned! Heartbroken! Furious! These are but three of the emotions I was feeling after reading about the rejection of the Island’s application to the state for federal funds to assist members of our community because of a clerical error. That is $2 million lost.

BEARING DRIFT: A Story of Tragedy, Heroism and How Thirty-Four Sailors Rescued the U.S. Coast Guard. By Peter Sloan Eident. Pirate Press. 350 pages, $29.95.

From a 1952 Gazette edition:

Since Thursday, when the Coast Guard building, three stories high, came towing into Menemsha Creek on a scow after crosssing Vineyard Sound from Cuttyhunk, people have exclaimed: “How unusual!”

But here on the Vineyard the moving of buildings by water is an old story. Not too many men are now living who have engaged in such undertakings, but there are many familiar with the history of similar movings who can point out houses and other structures that floated alongshore to their present destinations.

Jamie O’Gorman stood in a field of summer squash and cucumbers at Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown on Saturday, looking over her shoulder, hoping that more volunteers would arrive at any minute. The field behind the peach orchard had only a few volunteers that afternoon to help the Island Grown Initiative’s gleaning program.

With their town administrator’s resignation effective at the end of the month, Oak Bluffs selectmen met on Friday morning to discuss how to fill the gaping hole at the top of town government. The town is currently searching for an interim town administrator while it prepares its larger search for a permanent replacement for Michael Dutton.

Selectmen announced Mr. Dutton’s resignation last Friday after weeks of speculation in light of the town’s financial problems and revelations about violations to state public bidding laws.

The first Tisbury art stroll got off to a quiet start on Friday night, but no matter, the tide in this port town is changing. Dawn Braasch, owner of the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore and now president of the Tisbury Business Association, is on a mission to revitalize downtown Vineyard Haven.

And the art stroll was a good way to kick off her campaign. “It just felt like there was life again in Vineyard Haven. It was lovely,” she said.