JOHN S. ALLEY
508-693-2950
Today is the beginning of the Columbus Day holiday weekend. Town buildings, schools and post offices will be closed on Monday. The last farmers’ market and artisans festival will be held this weekend at the Grange Hall. Many outdoor chores were completed including mowing the lawn perhaps for the last time this year. A month from today we change back to standard time.
George Hartman reports that the antique power show was well attended last Saturday. In addition to the engines, old cars and shingle machine, George managed to put together a display of sewing machines. The harvest festival dinner was well attended and a good time was had by all.
Ed and Jane Konicki of Webster visited me last weekend. They enjoyed the potluck social, visiting friends and having a swell time. Ed helped with household renovation tasks. Jane’s dish was enjoyed by all the folks at the harvest dinner.
Jen Rand reports that the selectmen will hold a forum for the public to discuss the beer and wine issue on Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. at the Howes House.
Anna Alley returned home on Sunday after a 10-day visit to the West Coast. She attended the AARP convention, where she saw Carol Burnett and Tim Conway, and heard an excellent speech by Jane Goodall. She visited with Sandra and Dee Caruso, Tom and Helen Maley’s daughter and son in law, and went to the Getty Museum with them. In addition to having a mini-reunion with college friends from the University of Oklahoma, she attended a number of concerts and the premier showing of The Way with Martin Sheen. She also spent five days in Santa Barbara with college friends and had a great time. She was thrilled to see all of the interior renovation work on the house when she walked in.
Trina Gay of Baltimore, Md., has been vacationing at the family home on Old County Road for the past two weeks. She has enjoyed meeting old friends, the weather and was pleasantly surprised that the dessert she made for the potluck last Saturday night was finished off. It was made from an old family recipe.
Paul Karasik, the famous cartoonist, reports that The New Yorker magazine has published one of his drawings in this week’s edition. The man in the cartoon is reminiscent of Charlie McCarthy.
Emily Gadd of South Road left on Monday to return to Bozeman, Mont. She reports having a very busy summer with a lot of gardening, fishing and beach time and plans to return for the holidays.
Robert and Marjory Potts of Elias Lane were in Gloucester last week to meet their newest grandchild, Lemi Moses Marshall, born in Ziway Lake, Ethiopia on June 17, 2010, and brought to his new home in Gloucester in the arms of his parents, Phoebe Potts and Jeff Marshall on Sept. 11. Their days were packed with visits to North Shore places, including the Russell Apple Orchard in Ipswich and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.
Marjory said her favorite time of all was just hanging with Lemi, especially walking him up and down those steep Gloucester streets which rise up from their great harbor. Phoebe’s first book, her graphic memoir Good Eggs, is still moving along, and now she’s creatively finding a way to keep working on her next book, while Jeff keeps teaching and painting. They are thrilled to have Lemi in their life.
Brook and Kristin Zern are back in their house on South Vine Lane after a summer in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Daughter Jennifer has been here for the summer working for 7a Foods and plans to spend the winter. Brook and Kristin will be going to Spain for a month in early November. They host the expat Thanksgiving in Jerez de la Frontera (home of sherry and flamenco) as they are the only ones with an oven large enough to accommodate a turkey. Spaniards don’t roast whole turkeys; in fact they have to place a special order with their poultry specialist several days before. In the end he asks if they want it cut up, and it confuses him when they ask him to remove the feet and head. They import an ample supply of cranberry sauce and make do with a squash pie in place of pumpkin.
On Tuesday the Vineyard Transit Authority begins its winter bus schedule and the VTA operations manager reports there will be four busses serving us: numbers 2, 3, 5 and 6. The bus stops in town will be at Cronig’s, across from Alley’s and in front of the town and Grange Halls. Each bus will be serving more than one route during the day. Be sure to pick up a copy of the new schedule or go to vineyardtransit.com. The telephone number is 508-693-9440.
On Wednesday the Steamship Authority will begin operating the late fall boat schedule and all trips will come in and out of Vineyard Haven.
Linda Baughman of Philadelphia, Pa., will be arriving soon to spend three weeks at Phyllis Meras’s house on Music street.
Liz over at Vineyard Gardens reports that tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. they will host their 22nd annual harvest festival at their nursery on State Road. It will be a fun time for the whole family with fall displays of plant materials, nature craft activities for the young and old and fantastic food: chili, hot dogs, caramel apples and jalapeno corn bread!
Terre Young reports that Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard will have Handmade from the Heart again this Christmas season and invites all local artisans and bakers to contribute to this holiday fundraiser for hospice. They would like any unique handmade items, including jewelry, needlepoint, knitted items, paintings, photographs and more. Call her at 508-693-0189.
Tomorrow at the Grange Hall, the library will host its first Applefest from 3 to 6 p.m. Arts and crafts, face painting, a pie walk, bake sale, artisans/merchandise table, raffles, cider pressing and scarecrow making are all part of the fun. All proceeds benefit the West Tisbury Free Public Library expansion and renovation project. The event is free and takes place rain or shine.
The School PTO is asking West Tisbury residents and others to register their Stop and Shop card to help the school earn cash through the Stop and Shop A Plus School Rewards Program. Go on line to stopandshop.com/aplus to register your card using the 13-digit Stop and Shop member card number and the West Tisbury School’s ID #06820, or call the school and leave the last three letters of your last name and your 13-digit Stop and Shop number.
Lynn Ditchfield reports that this fall ACE MV is offering 43 classes and seminars in arts and communication, business and computers, education and parenting, cooking, history, health and fitness, writing, languages, Island land and sea. Classes start on Tuesday. Thanks to MV Family Center, all Thursday evening ACE MV classes at the high school offer free child care. Register online now at acemv.org.
Happy birthday to: Susan Whiting, Molly Gray, Isaac Fragosa and Kim Chandler-Elais today; Richard Anderson, Lincoln Higgins, Celina Pina-Shemo, Kathleen Hope and Maxwell Ferro tomorrow; Steve Lohman, Richard Rooney, Whitney Hyde, Victoria Danberg, Peter Cramer and Sophie Abrams on Sunday; Jon Harris, Nina Oken, Julie Giordano and Jennifer Jones on Monday; Hanna Beecher, Julie Keefe, Bob Mone and Martha Post on Tuesday; Lisa Amols, Bob Eisendrath, Art Nelson, Sherri Church, Alison Shaw on Wednesday; Steve Atwood, Carly Look, Cynthia Armstrong, Mave McAuliffe and Margot Parrot on Thursday.
Happy anniversary to Spencer and Belinda Booker today, their 19th, while Don and Hildy Mitchell will celebrate their 60th! Eric and Debbie Magnuson and Mike and Pat Lynch celebrate on Monday.
Belated birthday wishes to Holly Eger and her daughter, Julia. Belated anniversary greetings to Peter and Karen Socorelis and Dan Herbert and Maki Crum.
Well, that is all of the social news for this week’s edition. If you have any news please call or e-mail me. Yom Kipper begins at sundown today. Have a great week.
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