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July 5-Singing the Journey, Jeannie Gagne, Unitarian Universalist Musician-at-Large, Jeannie has been Director of Music at the UU Church in Middleboro, MA, for 13 years and is the co-author of the hymnal Singing the Journey. Today she brings her perspectives on making music for services of worship. Come prepared to sing and to meditate on the power of music in worship.

July 12-- Take These Broken Wings and Learn to Fly, Nancy Cox. Actor and UUSMV member, Nancy dramatizes a story about a boy whose anxieties concerning mortality baffle everyone. The service honors children, and Nancy’s five grandchildren will present recitations and solos on cello and violin. Nancy has performed in professional, university, and community theater both nationally and abroad. An honors graduate in Speech and Drama from Oberlin College, she studied Religious Drama in a graduate program offered jointly by the School of Fine and Applied Arts and the School of Theology at Boston University.

July 19-The Creation, Jim Thomas. Founder of the US Slave Song Project and UUSMV member, Jim will perform this oration by James Weldon Johnson--a vivid description of God’s creation of the world and all living things, including humankind. The US Slave Song Spirituals Choir will sing spirituals that enhance this unique program. Jim has given presentations in Europe and across the US, is founding director of the American Red Cross in Washington, DC, recruited military choirs in Vietnam and Germany, and has sung with the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Robert Shaw Chorale. He is the recipient of many awards, including the President’s Award for Leadership by the American Red Cross.

July 26-“My Neighbor, Della Hardman, Susan Klein. On Della Hardman Day, the third annual remembrance of this distinguished artist and art historian, we celebrate, with the Town of OakBluffs, all of Della’s contributions. Instrumental in setting and maintaining a positive tone for the town’s heritage of diversity, Della welcomed one and all. This morning we hear about Della from her next door neighbor, the island’s premier storyteller, Susan Klein.