Calendar and Community
Published: May 15, 2008
Five-year-old Vito Aiello looks like a natural handling the building materials as children constructed bat boxes at Felix Neck in Edgartown on May 10. Photo by Danielle Zerbonne
Oak Bluffs Library hosted a Mother's Day story hour on Saturday, May 3. Taynara Gonsalves and Amadine Muniz show off their handmade finery. Photo by Ralph Stewart
- A Family Affair : Bringing Celtic music to the Island
When master fiddler Alasdair Fraser takes the stage at Katharine Cornell Theatre tonight with the young cello-playing phenomenon, Natalie Haas, it promises to be an evening to remember. - Film : Six views of Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There"
As one of the Vineyard's premier music venues, Outerland makes an appropriate setting for Todd Haynes's award-winning film about Bob Dylan and his music. "I'm Not There" is built around landmark Dylan songs that have impacted the sound of folk, rock, and other popular music forms. - Wild tastes : foraging for food
Imagine going on a picnic without bringing any food. It's a very possible option if you go walking with wild food enthusiast Russell Cohen. More than 30 years ago, he took a high school course in Edible Botany and it changed his life. - Short Subjects
- Shuffling along : Year-round renters search for homes
As sure a sign of Island spring as buds and peepers, the "rental wanted" flyers begin appearing in March. By May the search gets frantic as winter tenants count down to moving day, many with nowhere to go. The nomadic "summer shuffle," marked by twice-yearly moves, has been a constant of Vineyard life for renters. - The Last Word : Web-stir
A few years back I decided that a website would be a good thing. Everybody is doing it, so says conventional wisdom in the 21st century - everybody being anyone who wants to reach out to a broad audience. - Off North Road : Swallows
For a dozen years, the same family has returned from the South to the small house I made for our front yard at Menemsha Pond. Always the first week in May, the first sign of their return was their cartwheeling accelerations over the misty pink budding-out of the swamp maple at the edge of the yard and over our roof and beyond all boundaries, changing direction in a nanosecond, diving toward earth, certain to crash, yet pulling out to reappear a half mile to the south. - Birds : Spring fallout
Things are right in the world for both birds and birders in the middle of May. It is an exciting time of year for birders, whether novice or veteran, as migrant birds pass by and summer resident species return for another breeding season.
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