Art and Dementia

Art and Dementia is a free six-week program of making and looking at art for people with dementia and their caregivers. Classes begin on Oct. 20 and run on successive Wednesdays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Preregistration is required and space is limited.

For information and to register call Mary Holmes at 508-862-1933 or mholmes2@partners.org.

Insight Meditation

The Insight Meditation Community (IMC) of Martha’s Vineyard is beginning again after a one-year absence.

Sessions will be held at the Unitarian Universalist’s Memorial Chapel on Main street in Vineyard Haven (one block from the Vineyard Haven Public Library towards West Chop) on Saturday afternoons from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Shame fills the long silences in Samson and Delilah, a rare feature film from an Aboriginal filmmaker from Australia. Warwick Thornton’s directorial debut won the prestigious Camera d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival; French actress Isabelle Adjani, who was on the jury, described it as “the best love film we’ve seen for many a year.”

On Your Mark, Get Set, Eat and Drink

It was Ecclesiastes who said eat, drink and be merry. And who are we to disagree with such a wise scribe. Much better is to take the advice and head over to any or all of the events in store Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct. 16 at the 4th annual Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival.

Around the World in Three Hours

Ethnic studies week is approaching but no worries; there won’t be a test in the traditional sense. Instead, the test will be how much good food and fun you can enjoy during one evening.

The event is a benefit for Adult and Community Education of MV (ACE MV). It takes place at the Performing Arts Center of the high school on Friday, Oct. 15. It runs from 6 to 9 p.m. That’s just three hours to pack in a smorgasbord of talent.

Shakespeare on Strings

Reflections of Shakespeare, a concert of music, poetry and dance, will be presented by Boston’s Row Twelve Chamber Music Ensemble free to the public on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.

The performance is a gift from Row Twelve to the Island community, and supported in part by the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and by MPRI, in memory of Robert Hansen.

State Road School Food

State Road Restaurant will hold a benefit dinner to support Island Grown Schools on Sunday evening, Oct. 24. The food will be be sourced from Island farms and beer and wine are included,

When customers walk into the Morning Glory Farm stand off Meshacket Road in the outskirts of Edgartown, there is something homey about the scene, a feast for the senses. Workers carry in bushels of beans, the knees of their dungarees baggy and stained from a morning’s work in the fields. Bakers emerge from the farm kitchen balancing trays of fragrant, still-warm blueberry muffins. And owner Jim Athearn hoists huge burlap bags of sweet corn over his shoulder, emptying them onto a round table.

Editor’s Note: The proposal to build a fish pier in Oak Bluffs has generated dozens of letters to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which is reviewing the project as a development of regional impact (DRI). Most of the letters favor the pier. What follows is an edited selection.

A Grandmother’s Endorsement

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

As a grandmother who lives in Oak Bluffs, I feel that the fishing pier near the SSA would be a great asset to children and adults alike.

It was Columbus Day weekend, 1994. Kaye Flathers was asked to read scripture at her nephew’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard. It was the first time she had been to the Vineyard; as she stepped off the plane, the clear, bright air invigorated her.