Love at first sight it definitely wasn’t in the case of Dawn Greeley. Nor was it at second or third. She was an artist, you see, and I, well, I’m good at putting things in order. She saw the big picture, and I, the pesky details. She was larger than life, and I prefer near invisibility.

And so it went two years ago, as Dawn assumed the chairmanship of the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council, stepping up from vice-chairman, while I continued as secretary.

Carlin Hart has been appointed interim assistant principal at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, according to Dr. James Weiss, the Vineyard superintendent of schools.

In a release yesterday afternoon, Mr. Weiss stated the selected candidate for assistant high school principal had withdrawn at the last minute. He said the appointment of Mr. Hart will allow the high school to continue to move forward while conducting another search for an assistant principal during the school year.

Even if you don’t call your brother by the name of a different vegetable every day (Broccoli, Turnip, or, whenever he’s being nice, Pea Pod), many readers know what the quirky, crazy-lovable third grader Clementine means when she says, “Spectacularful ideas are always sproinging up in my brain.”

The lines sprang into Jemima James’ head, complete with melody, sometime in the 1970s: “Raised in a home, his back got no bone.” The rest of the song, Billy Baloo, soon followed.

“I just liked the way it sounded,” she said, sitting in the wind outside the Scottish Bakehouse in Vineyard Haven this week. Though the story didn’t pair with reality, she found that changing the words messed with the tune. And she trusts the songs that arrive this way.

Folksinger, storyteller and all-around funny guy Rabbi David Shneyer gave a coffeehouse performance Monday evening at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. Fingerpicking his Guild guitar, accompanying his tunes on harmonica too, donning different hats ­­— literally a cowboy hat or yarmulke or Greek sailor’s cap as the song demanded — the rabbi demonstrated for Islanders just how he has drawn a following within and well beyond the Jewish community.

Gallery Gets New Abode

ABoDE has moved. The new West Tisbury gallery — one mile down Oak Lane — sells paintings, photography, and sculpture. Please visit online VineyardAbode.com to view the gallery’s functional art. For details, call 914-830-9288.

Music will not be the only thing sizzling this summer at Outerland, the nightclub and live music venue at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport: Smoke’n’Bones Restaurant, opposite Tony’s Market in Oak Bluffs, is coming to Outerland for the summer season starting tonight.

This will be Smoke’n’Bones’s third location on Martha’s Vineyard. Their new locale at Outerland will be known as Smoke’n’Bones Up-Island.

Summer may still be weeks away, but the music is already hot and spicy at Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven. Singer-songwriter Bella and her musical partner Daniel Waters have created a show of bossa nova and samba that opens Tuesday night, June 3, at 7 p.m., and will return (with musical friends and variations of repertoire) every Tuesday throughout the summer.

“One.” Parents leaned close and readied their cameras.

“Two.” Seventh-graders looked at each other in excited anticipation. They had waited all day for this, waited for years, watching as older students took their turns. They had led the procession from Edgartown School down Main street to Memorial Wharf, and now stood at the water’s edge, clutching a garden, ready to pay tribute to generations of fallen soldiers.

Eat chocolate and be happy? Eat dark chocolate and be healthy? If the science is right, Islanders will have a chance to get happy and healthy by tasting some very special chocolates on Sunday, June 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.

There will be Vosges chocolates, Mirabelle hot chocolate items, Champlain and Tasse bars, sauces, organic cacao beans (“the new red wine”), and giant chocolate bars. Other snacks and beverages will be served, and there will be live music.