Diet Center Will Open

The Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat, which gained national recognition with the release of the publication, 21 Pounds in 21 Days, The Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox, plans to open a new location at 4 Main street in Vineyard Haven in early July.

The new location is designed for walk-in therapeutic treatments as well as an offering of wellness and detox products. More information is available by calling 508-693-0001 or visiting mvholisticretreat.com.

The Aquinnah Cultural Center will hold its second annual All Native Artisans Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the center, located in the former Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead at the Gay Head Cliffs.

The festival will showcase Native American art from several U.S. locales, as well as traditional native food, artists at work, music and dance performances, said Berta Welch, chairman of the Aquinnah Cultural Center.

Simple Salad Sensation

By CYNTHIA COWAN

Recent sun and showers worked miracles on home gardens struggling with a cool spring. Spinach and lettuce reached peak picking time seemingly overnight. For a few weeks anyway, gardeners don’t have to rely on Reliable.

If You Screen It, They Will

Come: Field of Dreams

The 2nd annual Baseball Fest will be held Thursday, July 17, at 5:30 p.m. at the baseball field at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.

The event will feature games, batting cages, hot air balloon rides, a radar gun, face painting, and ball park food. Field of Dreams will be shown courtesy of Martha’s Vineyard Film Society on the big screen in the outfield starting at 8 p.m.

Alison Shaw Gallery Fine are photography of Alison Shaw. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m., or by appointment at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs, tel. 508-696-7429 or online alisonshaw.com.

Current exhibit: Yellow opens Saturday, July 12 with reception 4 to 7 p.m. as part of Dukes County avenue arts district stroll.

Abode Gallery and Shop Paintings, photography and sculpture. Open by appointment at 224 Oak Lane, West Tisbury, tel. 914-830-9288 or online at vineyardabode.com.

Fifty-five summers ago, a small summer camp began in the northern woods of Vineyard Haven not far from Lake Tashmoo. Only two people staffed it then and a small number of children attended, but that first summer paved a path for many more summers to come.

The path led somewhere that is far from traditional, is never ordinary, but that shines brightly nonetheless. That path led to Jabberwocky.

V ineyard summer has its own rhythm, measured in tides, sunsets and Rick Bausman’s drums.

Most summer Mondays, State Beach offers all of these, with children’s laughter for a back beat and generously spaced picnic blankets for appreciating the rests. It’s called Drumming on the Beach.

Dean’s List

Christopher E. Leon of Oak Bluffs has been named to the dean’s list at Curry College in Milton for the spring 2008 term.

Dean’s List

Stephen John Brussard of Edgartown has been named to the dean’s list of distinguished students for the spring 2008 semester at Roanoke College in Salem, Va.

The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its summer season of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a Thursday night race on July 3 and two harbor races on July 6. 

Thursday night was overcast with the threat of rain, and a 10-knot southwest wind. Six boats posted for the start at red nun 6 outside of the Vineyard Haven harbor breakwater.

Finishing first was Bob Jewett in his Soling, Andiamo II. In second was Dan Culkin in the Vineyard Vixen, Magic Time. In third was Jerry Goodale in the Pearson 31, Stormalong.