Make Space for Peace

PeaceCraft volunteers are seeking a donated space and more volunteers to host their annual sale of crafts from Third World self-help projects.

Organized annually since 1997, this holiday season sale of beautiful, hand- made, affordable gifts help fund projects in the poorest areas of our world including the Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti Project.

For more information please contact Margaret Pénicaud at 508-693-0368.

Meet and Eat

Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard holds its monthly local food potluck and informational meeting on Thursday, Oct. 23 at the Agricultural Hall from 6:30 to 9 p.m. In the Slow Food tradition, please bring a dish to share using at least one local ingredient if possible and a place setting for everyone in your group. BYOB. For details, call 508-696-8597.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Jeanne Campbell — photographer, advisory board member of Featherstone Center for the Arts, and ardent supporter of the This I Believe series popularized by NPR’s Jay Allison — has invited artists to submit their own interpretations of This I Believe for an exhibition at the Oak Bluffs gallery.

All are invited to the opening reception on Sunday, Oct. 19, from 4 to 6 p.m. The show continues through Nov. 5.

“The challenge,” says Mrs. Campbell, “is trying to translate the belief into a visual form.”

The Flying Elbows, the Island’s own old-time string band, will crank out another night of zany songs and high- energy fiddle tunes next Friday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.

Currently a foursome, this band has been through many incarnations over the years. Original member Bob Hammond is back with the band, adding not only a twin fiddle but also some really rootsy clawhammer banjo.