Community
On Sunday, Oct. 24, some 115 Islanders joined the 20th Annual CROP Walk (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) for the hungry. Each participant was encouraged to find sponsors for the nearly seven-mile walk from St. Augustine’s Church in Vineyard Haven to Trinity Methodist Church in Oak Bluffs, and back again.
As an incentive, the Martha’s Vineyard YMCA offered five $100 gift certificates to the top fundraisers; three for participants under the age of 18 years and two for over 18.
Peacecraft at Pyewacket’s
From Friday, Nov. 26 through Friday, Dec. 24 Peacecraft will be holding their annual holiday benefit sale at Pyewacket’s on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven. The holiday store will be open every day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and feature Third World crafts and Haitian metalwork. Proceeds will go toward helping the poor throughout the world through medical, educational and food programs as well as offer a means of livelihood.
But Peacecraft needs your help. Volunteers are needed throughout the month.
Go Fly a Kite
This Sunday, Nov. 21 there is an opportunity to merge two activities that while seemingly perfect in their individual states, lift off into some magical realm of joy when merged. Eating an ice cream sundae while flying a kite. The event is the fourth annual Sundaes and Kites on Sunday brought to you by Miss Lani Carney and the folks at Featherstone in Oak Bluffs.
Alpaca Open House
Belly full, tryptophan kicking in and making you so, so tired? Well, instead of snoozing in front of the same old, same old football game, head out to Island Alpaca’s Thanksgiving open house. The farm is open every day from Thursday, Nov. 25 through Sunday, Nov. 28.
Take a self-guided walking tour on the twenty acre spread, meet and greet the friendly alpaca in the viewing area and enjoy tasty treats and a cup of hot cider.
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,