🌮 Weekend Update: 5/5-5/7

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What To Do This Weekend

Thursday (5/4)

Community Sing at Slough Farm, 5:30-7

Tacos, Tortillas, and Mocktail Margaritas at FARM Institute, 5:30 Sign Up

Friday (5/5)

Moonlight Kayak Tour at Felix Neck, 6p

Saturday (5/6)

Kentucky Derby Party at Alchemy at 5:30p

Healthy Kids Day at YMCA of MV, 1:30-3:30

Sunday (5/7)

Land Bank Guided Walk: John Presbury Norton Farm at 1p

Mother’s Day Portraits at WT Public Library, 1-3p

Climate Action Fair at Ag Hall, 12-4p

• The daylong event includes: Energy Consultants (Home Efficiency, Solar, and EVs; Workshops (Clothing Mending, Bike Safety and Maintenance, Composting, Emergency Preparedness); Activities (learn to Shuck an Oyster, Worm Composting, Seed Surprises); Raffle and Giveaway (eco-friendly, energy-efficient, reusable, & local items, goods & services): Art (Vineyard Conservation Society’s annual student art contest; winners announced at the Fair); Food: Epicure MV and Cottage City Oysters; Music; and more about registering to vote, caring for native plants and Vineyard lawns. 

Save The Date

• May 12 - Mother’s Day Weekend in Edgartown, 40th Annual Bird-a-thon

• May 15 - Martha’s Party Wedding and Event Conference

• May 18 - Wine dinner at Little House Cafe

• May 19 - Whitney Houston Fundraising Concert at the Strand

• May 20 - MV Marathon + Half Marathon

• May 27-28 - Vineyard Artisans Memorial Day Festival

• May 28 - 5k Road Race, MV Soundfest

• June 10 - Jorma Kaukonen in MV Concert Series

• June 2–4: MV Flavors: A Food History Symposium, MV Museum

• June 3: Annual Cross-Island Island Hike

• June 10: Oak Bluffs' Pride Parade and Events

• June 15: Vineyard Preservation Trust's Taste of the Vineyard

• June 15-17 - Edgartown Race Weekend

• June 17: Oak Bluffs Harborfest

• June 15–17: Edgartown Yacht Club Race Weekend Sailing Regatta

• June 17-19: Juneteenth Jubilee Celebration of Joy and Culture

For Save the Dates for July and Beyond, check out the full list in our App.

Restaurant News

• Recently Opened:

  • This past week - Among the Flowers, Larsens, Biscuits, Lucky Hank’s

  • Recently - Farm Neck Cafe, Back Door Donuts, Orange Peel Bakery, State Road, 19 Raw Oyster, Atlantic, Jimmy Seas, Red Cat, Lookout, Tigerhawk, Aalia’s Coffee, Murdick’s Edgartown, Fat Ronnie’s, Lilikoi Cafe (new), Black Sheep, Pie Chicks, Coop De Ville, Dairy Queen, Aquila, Beach Road, John’s Fish Market, Fish House MV

• Opening Soon

  • 5/5 - Mad Martha’s, Fish MV

  • 5/6 - Edgartown Seafood

  • 5/8 - Pawnee House

  • 5/9 - Detente

  • 5/10 - Chilmark General Store