It was a road trip for 33 young musicians and their grown-up entourage, led by maestro Nancy Jephcote, as they joined the All-Cape & Island String Jamboree on Monday at Barnstable Intermediate School, an intensive orchestra event.

Special for the Girls

The Alexandra M. Gagnon Do It For Yourself day for seventh grade girls is Sunday, March 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. at The Vineyard Tennis Center, Workout and Spa.

This is a free event aimed at helping girls find relaxing and healthy ways to be happy. Participants can participate in cardio workouts, cooking, skin care, massage and more. Wear sneakers and comfortable clothes.

RSVP by Thursday, March 24 508-696-8000 or vineyardtenniscenter.com.

Slow Medicine

Slow Medicine is a movement that encourages less aggressive — and less costly — care at the end of life. This movement has come in direct response from the many elderly patients who find themselves faced with the health care system’s offer of a myriad of tests and procedures that may not necessarily improve the quality of their lives.

On Tuesday, March 22 at 7 p.m. the Vineyard Haven Public Library will host a panel of Island professionals to discuss and answer questions about slow medicine.

Young Poet Awards

The 2011 Promising Young Poets contest has named four winners and two runners-up in its second annual contest for high school poets.

This years winners are Jess Dupon from the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, and Jordan Wallace, Claudia Taylor and Lizzie Kelleher from the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

Runners-up are Truda Silberstein, from the regional high school and Oscar Thompson form the charter school.

Free from the Heart

Nancy Slonim Aronie teaches a writing workshop called Straight from the Heart designed to help students find their own voice and write without worry. Beginning next week she will take a page from her own playbook by offering straight from her heart a free writing workshop.

The last of this winter’s Sail Martha’s Vineyard dinner/lecture series at the Black Dog Tavern will take place Wednesday, March 23 at 6 p.m. The evening will feature Dyer Jones, chief executive officer of the Herreshoff Museum/America’s Cup Hall of Fame.

Mr. Jones is also a former commodore of the New York Yacht Club and a coauthor of The 12 Metre Class; A History of the International 12 Metre Class.

Felix Neck is offering Fern and Feather Natural History Day Camp scholarships and discounts to year-round Vineyard residents again this year. Its camp offers children an opportunity to experience the outdoors on a 350-acre wildlife sanctuary while exploring forest, field, salt marsh, fresh water and saltwater communities. Each weekly theme incorporates outdoor investigation, games, hands-on natural history lessons, hikes, stories and crafts. Programs are available for children entering grades pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

Bye Bye Birdie

Although most of the Island is concerned with saying hello to the birdies as spring begins to unfold, the Tisbury School seventh and eighth graders are riding against the grain by saying goodbye to the birdies.

Well, actually no real birds are involved at all. Nor pinkletinks, crocuses or snowdrops.

Boys 2 Da Core

Turn off the electronics and get moving. That’s the message, or gift, rather, the Vineyard Tennis Center, Workout and Spa is offering to high school boys.

On March 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. the center is hosting a free workout with Kye 2 Da Core. The afternoon is designed to be an introduction for kids to turn to physical activity as a creative outlet rather than technology.

For more details and to register, call 508-696-8000 or visit vineyardtenniscenter.com.

Vineyard Voices is a book of oral histories compiled by Linsey Lee. Each story is, at first glance, a snapshot of a person’s life, just a page long. However, the effect one takes away from reading each entry is so much fuller, as if an entire life has been captured and immortalized.

To do this in just a few paragraphs takes a lot of skill and craftsmanship.