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Aquinnah: Spring and summer events Kyra Steck
The time has now come in Aquinnah when you can safely say “Happy spring.” Although it is not as green in town as it is down-Island, the trees are budding (so too is the poison ivy watch out!), the daffodils are fading but will soon be replaced by irises, and the lilacs are blooming. I wouldn’t put your winter clothes away just yet, but you are probably not going to need snow pants again until at least October. It’s nice to see people out in their gardens, clearing beds and making things pretty.
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Chilmark prepares for expected influx of tourists
Officials say festivals, programs, sunsets, and camps can all happen within health guidelines.
The Blessing of the Fleet will return to Menemsha this Memorial Day weekend with proper health guidelines in place. - Rich Saltzberg
On Wednesday, the Chilmark board of health held a joint Zoom meeting with the town’s select board to decide how to handle the upcoming summer tourist season. As COVID restrictions lessen and more people become vaccinated, Chilmark officials prepare for an increase in the number of tourists coming to their part of the Island.
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Chilmark considers M.V. Summer Book Series in August
Selectmen say any approval will be ‘provisional’ based on COVID conditions.
Founded in 2005, the festival is an outgrowth of the Chilmark Community Center’s evening lecture series.
Suellen Lazarus, founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival, pitched the concept of the event to the board at Tuesday’s meeting.
Normally, the full-fledged festival would be held at the Chilmark Community Center, and would feature authors being interviewed by panels, book signings, and other programs.
But Lazarus said the five-day Summer Series would serve as a scaled-down stand-in for the regular festival, which would be impossible to pull off due to COVID restrictions.
“Electric Garden of Unearthly Delights” (through June 1) showcases “luminous glass” by Mundy Hepburn, who works with the same scientific principles used in television and fluorescent light to create art. He fills blown-glass forms with gas mixtures such as helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon, then activates it all with high-frequency static electricity. The result is described as “a kaleidoscope of swirling patterns of multicolored light.” Connecticut native Mundy’s “moving, living art” has been exhibited in over 30 installations.
“Fritz Glass” (through Oct. 31) highlights the work of featured artist Fritz Lauenstein, who, after studying glass-blowing in Maine and Vermont, set up his studio in Dennis in 1990. He creates both functional and decorative glass, including marbles, paperweights, perfume bottles, jewelry, vases and bowls. His work has been shown and sold in museums and over 200 galleries.
Actor, activist, author, and Aquinnah resident Michael J. Fox is headlining the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival’s first winter event on Feb. 25 to talk about his new memoir “No Time Like The Future.” The talk will include Fox discussing his new memoir with his friend and bestselling author Harlan Coben, a novelist and creator of […]