In June my sister, Carole Cowan Dunscombe, died at the age of 51. My parents survived her as no parent should have to do. The timeliness of the Children’s Memorial at Edgartown Light couldn’t have been any better and my parents were able to have a stone placed there in her memory. Carole couldn’t get down to the lighthouse due to her wheelchair, however she spent many days looking out on the light from Memorial Wharf.

Candy Shweder of Up-Island Pottery will have a sale in her pottery barn in Chilmark on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 9 a.m. to noon.

The traditional end of the summer season will be marked by deep discounts on one-of-a-kinds, seconds and discontinued patterns and colors as well as a wide array of her current styles and glazes.

Candy has been selling her pottery on the Vineyard for 25 years. Known for her floral patterns and cheerful colors, she describes her work as art for the table.

In the small town where he lived, there is no memorial to Matthew Shepard. The fence post where he, an openly gay man of 21, hung dying for some 18 hours, tied up after being pistol-whipped, has been torn down. The bar from which he was lured to his murder is gone.

He carries in his fingertips the rhythms of the world, from the Caribbean calypso that cries out from his old beat-up steel drum, to the Cuban guaguanco (wa-wan-kó) that comes from his congas, to the Brazilian sambas he lays down in layers. The samba he teaches in parts — one, for instance, he taps out to the phrase, “I like pizza, all kinds of pizza” — to groups of elderly Parkinson’s patients, to preschoolers, to prisoners and to people with cerebral palsy.