The playwright steals — lines, plots, anything that works. The playwright uses historical events, fashioning his own take on the characters within those happenings. He finds whole scenes come to him in his dreams. He writes fluidly in iambic pentameter. He doesn’t mind getting bawdy. The playwright is?
William Shakespeare, sure. But there is another correct answer: Robert Brustein.
Masters of the Celtic harp Gráinne Hambly and William Jackson will play a concert — and offer a music therapy workshop centered on the small harp — next weekend at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
Both events are on Saturday, Sept. 29 — the concert is at 8 p.m. and Mr. Jackson’s workshop is at 4 p.m.
The popular IMP after-school classes are back, on stage at the Oak Bluffs and Edgartown schools.
On Tuesdays, grades six through eight meet at the Oak Bluffs School 4:45 to 6:30 p.m. On Thursdays, grades two to five meet at Edgartown School from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
The Insight Meditation Community of Martha’s Vineyard, which has been meeting in the Unitarian-Universalist Chapel for the past 27 years, is entering a new phase in its growth as it becomes a recognized teacher-led Sangha (a Sanskrit word roughly translated as community), thanks to Chas Di Capua, teacher in residence at the Insight Meditation Society located in Barre, Mass.
COMSOG, the Community Solar Greenhouse of Martha’s Vineyard, is continuing a 21-year tradition of celebrating the arrival of the fall season by welcoming Island residents and their families to its Fall Harvest Festival on Sunday, Sept. 30, from noon to 3 p.m. at the greenhouse off of New York avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Charter School
Monday, Sept. 24: Macaroni and cheese, ratatouille, pears and milk.
Tuesday, Sept. 25: Corn chowder, grilled cheese sandwich, fruit smoothie and milk.
Wednesday, Sept. 26: Sandwiches (ham and cheese, tuna salad or veggie and cheese), lettuce, tomato and sprouts, Moroccan salad, pineapple and milk.
Thursday, Sept. 27: Pizza (plain cheese, pepperoni or pesto and artichoke), tossed salad, fresh fruit and milk.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. This old truism is making things difficult for the recently discovered native populations of Phragmites, also known as common reed or phrag.
The phrag we all love to hate is an invasive tall grass that is becoming the dominant plant along the upper edges of our salt marshes, growing so thickly that it crowds out any other plants, including cattails, sedges, wild flowers, and woody shrubs.
By LYNNE IRONS
Last Saturday’s rain made me so happy. There is nothing quite like waking up to that soft patter. It sure makes one’s bed enjoyable. I love the smell of rain especially on hot pavement. We are in desperate need of a slow, steady soaking.
Tisbury Great Pond looked like a Japanese painting, flat calm with a fine mist hanging just over the surface. It was so quiet it was eerie. The silence was broken by the honking of a flock of Canada Geese. The birds rose up in a V-formation through the fog and headed directly towards my kitchen window, creating quite a din for such an early hour. At what seemed the last second, the flock sailed over the roof and headed towards Black Point Pond.
Diversity Discussion
Island Diversity Council hosts a showing of Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part 3, followed by a discussion, at 6:30 p.m. at the West Tisbury School cafeteria. All are welcome to discuss this important topic and how it affects our Island community.
