Arts & Entertainment
By REMY TUMIN
Every August, Vineyarders flood the fair grounds at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Hall in West Tisbury. Every fall, we are treated to the harvest festival to celebrate the season’s bounty, and every winter we have Island artisans’ fairs, community potlucks or most recently the winter farmers’ markets. The Vineyard is a place of tradition, and the Ag Hall is a beacon of that.
Santa on a Steel Horse
Twas about a month before Christmas and many a creature was stirring.
And why not? It was a beautiful fall day, Thanksgiving still two weeks away.
There were no stockings hung by the chimney with care, nor did visions of sugar plums dance in the air.
Thoughts of St. Nick and his bag full of toys were not on this day’s list of joys.
Then a horde of Harley Riders all of them wearing red caps, some even in chaps,
Water Essays
Water Matters, Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource, was recently released by AlterNet, an award-winning magazine and online community.
Water Matters includes a contribution from Island writer William Waterway. Other contributing writers include Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow and Tina Rosenberg, to name a few.
For more information, please visit alternet.org.
Special Education Talk
On Wednesday, Nov. 17, Charlotte Spinkston, executive director for Urban Pride, will present a workshop highlighting one’s basic rights under the special education law. The workshop aims to help parents learn how to be effective partners with their schools to help make decisions and determine a child’s eligibility for special education. It will also discuss ways to plan and monitor the educational progress of one’s children.
Years from now. when they go Hollywood and won’t return your calls you’ll be able to say, yeah, well I saw them back in the day when they were still green in the green room. That’s if you head out this week and next to the Vineyard Playhouse’s annual fourth grade theatre project.
The All-Island Seasonal Flu Clinic will take place on Thursday, Nov. 11, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School for adults and high school students. All participants must register at another location on the day of the flu clinic, however; go to either Waban Park in Oak Bluffs or the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury complete the paperwork prior to traveling to the high school to get vaccinated.
