Peace Council

The Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council will meet on Thursday, June 5, at 6:30 p.m. at Grace Church in Vineyard Haven. The council will evaluate the Iraq resolution voted on in Island town meeting voting and plan for summer projects. All are welcome. Call 508-627-8536 for more information.

Photography at Dragonfly

The opening reception for the Dragonfly Gallery’s photography show will be held Saturday, May 24, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the gallery at 91 Dukes County avenue. The show runs from May 22 through June 1.

The gallery’s show features many Vineyard and regional photographers. Photos of familiar vistas as well as exotic places and personal looks at nature and the world are included. From black and white to bold color, this show expresses the magic of the many types of cameras, photographers and printing processes.

Memorial Day Coffeehouse

Rabbis for Human Rights and the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center present Songs of Peace and Justice, A Memorial Day Coffeehouse, on Monday, May 26 at 7 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, Vineyard Haven.

Recording artist David Shneyer, founder of the popular folk band the Fabrangen Fiddlers, rabbi and cantor, will perform Jewish and other folk music

Author Nicole Galland was tucked up in bed when it came to her all at once: she would write the new Moby Dick.

Breese Architects Featured

In Book At Home by the Sea

Breese Architects of Vineyard Haven is featured in a new book of work by the renowned photographer Brian Vanden Brink. The book, At Home by the Sea, examines the unique design of Atlantic Coast homes from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean. The Breese Architects article focuses on designing and siting a home with minimal disruption of a coastal bank and numerous water views.

Acclaimed concert pianist Sarah Haera Tocco makes her Vineyard debut with virtuosic Romantic masterworks in a Piano Recital at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, May 24, at 8 p.m.

Chapter One

Dear P:

Call me Becca! That’s what everyone still calls me, back here on the rock. I love it; makes me feel like a kid again.

Getting here was a pain in the butt. There are now several ways of schlepping to the Vineyard from NYC without a car (or a private jet), but I don’t know that any of them are an improvement over the old standby: bus from Port Authority to Woods Hole, and then the ferry.

Tennis Classic

The Vineyard Youth Tennis Center will host its second fundraiser for its scholarship fund on May 31 and June 1. The entry fee is $80 per adult team and $50 per junior team. All money raised will benefit the scholarship fund that will enable deserving children to attend week-long tennis academies in Florida. Entry forms can be downloaded at vineyardyouthtennis.org, or can be obtained by calling 508-693-7762.

Tennis, Anyone?

The Vineyard Youth Tennis Center will be hosting a mixed doubles tennis tournament from May 30 to June 1 at its facility in Oak Bluffs. The tournament will benefit the center’s scholarship fund that raises money to send deserving children to tennis academies in Florida. Entry fee is $80 per adult team and $50 for a junior team.

For more information, call Scott Smith at 508-693-7762 or e-mail at scott@vineyard.net. Registration forms can also be downloaded from their Web site at vineyardyouthtennis.org.

Alison Shaw: Orange

The opening reception for the 2008 season at the Alison Shaw Gallery is set for Saturday, May 24 from 4 to 7 p.m.

This year the gallery is showing work from Ms. Shaw’s many series of fine art photographs, unified by the theme of color. Gallery hours (after Saturday) will be Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. The gallery is at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs. More information is available by calling 508-696-7429.