Community
The 22nd annual Martha’s Vineyard CROP Walk will be held on Oct. 14, and advance planning takes place at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven on Saturday, Sept. 8, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
The sixth annual Tisbury Firefighters Association Car Show roars into town this Sunday, Sept. 2. Hot rods, antiques, custom jobs and classics, plus motorcycles, too, will strut their stuff at the Tisbury wharf on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven. Most of the vehicles that will be on display are owned and operated by Islanders.
Trophies will be awarded by popular vote. There will be a 50/50 Raffle, and burgers and hotdogs starting at 4 p.m. and roasting until sunset.
Pretty soon, ferry passengers and devotees will be able to show their Steamship Authority pride even while on dry land.
At their monthly meeting last week, Steamship Authority governors authorized the development of an online store to sell SSA merchandise starting late this fall.
According to notes from the board’s meeting in Hyannis, New York-based corporate gift firm Scarborough & Tweed will develop and launch an online merchandise store for the boat line for a start-up cost of $5,000, plus $25,000 for merchandise.
The Guinness Book of World Records has a category called biggest zit, and one for the most people blowing their nose at the same time. But while a category exists for largest temporary maze, and largest permanent maze, there is no category for a portable maze — yet. That day may come, though, if you ask Sean O’Malley, Ryan O’Malley, Jared Koster or Perry Bliss. These enterprising 12 year-olds make up the board of the Giant Maze Project, and they’ve got a maze they think would easily dominate the portable maze category for a long time.
It’s 6 a.m., but the energy feels more like noon at the Orange Peel Bakery in Aquinnah. Music is blaring, the sinks are full of dirty pots and bowls, the mixer is going and the counters are covered with vats of bread dough and pre-ferments (wild yeast) that are so active they are pushing the lids off the containers.
Juliannne Vanderhoop looks up from lighting her outdoor stone oven that could house a character from a J.R.R. Tolkien story, and recalls how it all started.
Vineyard Comedy Fest
The stage is set this summer for the second annual Knock-Knock production’s Martha’s Vineyard Comedy Fest, a series of comedy shows performed at the Lampost in Oak Bluffs this week and next. The festival offers a full menu of humor, with comedians Torris Brown, Brian Babylon and Kevin Williams performing tonight at 8 p.m., and B Cole, Frank Collaso, Leon Rogers and Damon Williams performing three nights next week — August 30, 31 and Sept. 1.
All shows begin at 8 p.m., and doors open at 7:30 p.m.