JUNE D. MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks@gis.net)

The holiday week has brought many back to the Vineyard for the holiday and grand family gatherings. It is nice to see people you perhaps only run into on these special occasions.

Beatrice Gentry is a patient at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and expects to return home by the end of the week.

Gladys Widdiss is still recuperating from her recent fall; a patient at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, she anticipates returning home within a week.

Condolences to the family, friends, and neighbors of Polly Woollcott Murphy, who passed away at her home on Nov. 15. For many years, we enjoyed Polly’s Vineyard Gazette columns covering West Tisbury and Chilmark. All of us up-Island attended school with at least one of the Murphy children during the 1960s, and now the children of those children are all friends.

Joan Lelacheur is presenting her wampum jewelry for the home with her mosaic art at the Chilmark Public Library, during their usual hours of operation, through Monday. This is a group show that also includes her friends Susan Elizabeth Johnson, with her latest paintings, and Anika Hodson, with her new handwoven tapestries for the home. While you are out and about today and tomorrow, please stop by the Chilmark Library to see their show.

Julianne Vanderhoop will have the ovens at the Orange Peel Bakery fired up all week for the holiday and beyond. She will have a grand assortment of breads (also available at both Cronig’s Markets), pies, dinner rolls, and irresistible sweet treats. Stop in and see what Juli has as specials for the day as well.

Artist Wendy Weldon will have an open studio on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27 and 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Please stop by and enjoy Wendy’s collection of beautiful scenes at her studio on Austin Path on the road to Aquinnah: very serene scenes of pastures and stonewalls.

Tisbury Council on Aging will have a holiday bazaar Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27 and 28 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day. There will be beautiful handcrafted items in time for the holidays. A very generous family had donated skeins of yarn to the center over the summer. In turn, director Joyce Stiles-Tucker allocated the yarn to everyone for one project. In exchange for a few skeins of yarn, I have created and donated a few hand-knit scarves in different colors and designs for their sale. In addition, one of my friends, Jane Anderson (a former classmate of mine during my years in Pleasantville, N.Y.) also donated a few scarves for the sale.

While here for the holiday week, and perhaps contemplating your winter knitting or crocheting projects, you would enjoy stopping by to see Alix Seife Small at her new Vineyard Knitworks shop at 70 New Lane in West Tisbury. Her shop is at the site of the former Tinker home. Alix has the latest colors and textures to tantalize the most fastidious handcrafter. She also has a popular frequent buyer club card. If you are really pressed for time, you may order a custom-made creation from one of her numerous books and she will knit it for you; the options are seemingly limitless, as are the fibers! She even has Diane DeMoe’s handcarved knitting needles for sale. Stop by and enjoy a cup of tea or hot cider and enjoy the fun.

Nectar’s season finale is Saturday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. for those 18 years of age and above. Tickets are $15 at the door. This will be a night of benefit music for David Tucker and his medical care, and for the Affordable Housing Fund’s assistance for renters. The evening will be filled with local musicians including Isaac Taylor, Colin Ruel, Al Karalekas, Phil daRosa, Pinto Abrams and many others.

Deer week begins on Monday, Nov. 30. Please remember to dress in bright orange if you are walking anywhere near the woods, especially if you are on your way to the bus stop. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will have their deer weigh-in station open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you are interested in donating any of the venison for tribal use it would be very much appreciated.

Juleanne VanBelle, the Aquinnah town nurse, will be at the Aquinnah town hall on Wednesday, Dec. 2 from 1 to 3 p.m. Her clinics will now be held on the first Wednesday of each month. At this time, seasonal flu vaccines are on hold. For further information, please call her at 774-563-0666.

Happy 21st anniversary wishes to Marshall Lee and his wife, Martha Vanderhoop, as they enjoy their day on Dec. 3.

Happy anniversary wishes to Francis and Laurie Brown on Dec. 3.

Happy birthday wishes this week to Carlos Montoya on Nov. 28 as he shares the day with Diamond “Ellie” Vanderhoop. Al Alley and Karl Burgess share the day with yoga guru Jane Belanger Norton on Nov. 29.

Reverend Peter Sanborn will observe his special day on Dec. 1. Doris Hamel will party on Dec. 1 when she observes her 90th birthday, and as Meg Spokus reminds us all, Doris has resided at her 49 Lighthouse Road home for the past 40 years “and loved every minute.” Coltrane Leport will be 10 years old on Dec. 1. A very special birthday wish to fellow Vineyard Gazette columnist John S. Alley as he celebrates on Dec. 3.

William Durwood Vanderhoop, aka Woody, will celebrate on Dec. 3 and shares his day with Vern Welch, Millicent Smalley and Farley Glavin. Janie Bankoff-Popkin will party on Dec. 4, and shares the day with Jacob L. Vanderhoop, and Soroya Lynn Randolph, who will be two years old. George Szilassy will pause to celebrate on Dec. 5 even while finishing up some house painting projects before winter sets in.