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The Island has more than its fair share of ghost stories — tales of haunted swamps, buried treasures, spiteful spectres and benevolent phantoms.
What are Nancy Drew, The Cat in the Hat, and Winnie the Pooh doing hanging out on Main street? They are waiting to be judged in the eighth annual scarecrow contest sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School.
This year’s contest has a literary theme, with characters from Where the Wild Things Are, Charlotte’s Web, The Wizard of Oz and other children’s classics braving the winds and weather this week.
Pigs. Goats. Compost. What do they all have in common? They all love pumpkins! And they especially love those tasty, candle-roasted, day-after-Halloween jack-o-lanterns — the perfect nosh for the farm (minus the wax, please)!
The Island Grown Initiative presents the first annual Feed a Pig a Pumpkin Day‚ Saturday, Nov. 3.
Post-Halloween pumpkins can be dropped off during regular business hours at:
Allen Farm in Chilmark,
FARM Institute in Edgartown,
Native Earth Teaching Farm in Chilmark,
Julianne Vanderhoop’s front yard in Aquinnah features a modest house and small pond fed by a Black Brook underground spring.
Welcome, Lillian
Peter and Patricia Valenti of Edgartown are pleased to announce the birth of their first grandchild, Lillian Mae Laskowski, on Oct. 4, in Providence, R.I. Lillian, who weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces at birth, is the daughter of Brianna Valenti and Robert Laskowski of Providence. She is also welcomed by her uncles Michael, Andrew and Ethan Valenti.
Polly Brown of Tisbury, a founder of the Spirit of the Vineyard Award, was herself honored with that award Saturday morning by her colleagues at Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard.
Hospice established the award a decade ago to honor volunteers who have given their time, talent and energy to a wide range of Vineyard charities over a long period of time.
More than 40 of her friends, including her brother, Daniel Putnam Brown Jr., gathered for a morning social and speeches at the Howes House in West Tisbury. The gathering was festive and the praise high.