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Azor Arrives
Jessica and Russell Hartenstine of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Azor Forrest Hartenstine, on Nov. 15 at Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Azor weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Big sister Sarah Ruth welcomes her new baby brother.
On this November morning, the Menemsha lobster boat Shearwater has made its way three and a half miles south of Noman’s Land.
Club Hosts Shoot
The Martha’s Vineyard Rod & Gun Club will hold its annual fall shotgun shoot from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25 at the club, which is off Third street in Edgartown.
Open to members and the public, everyone is eligible for prizes. This annual shotgun marksmanship competition takes place the day before the shotgun deer season opens.
After that Thanksgiving dinner settles, get outdoors and relax with family and friends at Felix Neck’s Fall Festival, set for Friday, Nov. 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the wildlife sanctuary on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.
The third annual International Feast for Compassion Benefiting People Facing Devastation: Darfur is set for Saturday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Centre street in Vineyard Haven.
All are welcome to come enjoy delicious international foods and music while helping the most challenged people on the planet. The musicians will be David Stanwood, as well as the trio of Greta Bro, Ricardo Frota and John Hicks.
Explore some of the old roads and ancient ways of Edgartown on horseback, with an informal (noncompetitive) trail ride on Sunday, Nov. 25.
Riders are invited to gather their horses for a 10 a.m. start at the deer weighing station off Barnes Road near the state forest headquarters. There’s plenty of room to park trailers, and trail wardens from the Edgartown byways committee will be available to stop traffic for anyone riding over from the state forest west of Barnes Road.