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Published: May 8, 2008

• Mother's Day
  It's simple: Mother's Day is a chance to tell the woman who loves, protects, and cares for you every day of the year that you love her.
• Film : "King Corn" - You really are what you eat
  In "King Corn," Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis, two recent East Coast college grads, enter a scientist's office to find out what they're made of - literally.
• Also this week

  • Births
  • Chilmark
  • Edgartown
  • Oak Bluffs
  • Tisbury
  • West Tisbury
  Theatre : Pirates capture the Playhouse
  Come to Vineyard Playhouse to see wildly fierce pirates, lost shipwrecked survivors and playful natives all rallying, plotting and scheming on one very small island.
• Art : Louisa Gould Gallery opens
  After months of restoration, the Louisa Gould Gallery on Main Street in Vineyard Haven is finally up and running. The season opener Saturday evening was filled with gallery goers for a busy 5 pm start in what gallery owner Louisa Gould is calling a "new" gallery.
• Short Subjects
• Brief Encounters: Benjamin Lambert Hall Knowing his place
  It's Saturday afternoon and the phone and FAX take turns ringing. Benjamin "Buzzy" Hall jumps up to answer and arranges a meeting with someone who's interested in one of his rental properties.
• Birds : Birds of May
  The month of May is always refreshing, exciting and new for birders. No matter how long one has been birding, it never grows old - whether you're fresh out of the blocks and enjoying your first spring of looking at birds, or you're celebrating the 50th such annual ritual of gorgeous May days.
• Visiting Veterinarian : Leaving tracks
  It was late afternoon, a cold February day in the early 80s. I was taking a solitary walk along Lake Tashmoo, strolling past deserted houses, watching the sunset reflect in the icy water. Roused from my contemplative mood by a sudden whistle and rustling of leaves, I looked around curiously.
• Garden Notes : In your own backyard
  "A great many things happen when you plant a vegetable garden, some of them directly related to climate change, others indirect but related nevertheless. Growing food, we forget, comprises the original solar technology: calories produced by means of photosynthesis...."
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