Throughout the spring and summer the folks at the Vineyard Ghosts Walking Tour have delighted and frightened visitors and Islanders alike during their tours through the three down-Island towns. The journeys travel literally through graveyards and to homes and businesses known to have haunted roots. They also travel much farther, to times past and the legends that birthed these spectral necromancers: A violent or too soon demise, whalers and their wives separated too early and their grief flowing everlasting, the cursed and revengeful.

Tennis is one of the few perfect sports that can be played the entirety of one’s life. Not many 80-year-olds out on the gridiron are there?

And yet there is still a lot of stopping and starting as one chases down a lob or crosscourt ripper which can lead to some cranky knees. Plus there’s that serving motion. Let’s just say it’s not a love match for your shoulders.

Community Supper

This week on Monday, Oct. 24, the Edgartown community suppers are starting up again. They will be held every Monday throughout the fall, winter and spring at the Baylies Room of the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.

The suppers are free and everyone is welcome. The evenings are an excellent resource for community as the Island grows colder, darker and, oftentimes, lonelier. They are also a welcome antidote to the very really issue of hunger as the off-season reality of fewer and smaller paychecks hits home.

Ball Fore

One sport begets another, at least this Saturday, Oct. 22, that is.

It’s the seventh annual Birdies for Baseball charity golf tournament. That’s right, you won’t be just swinging a golf club for fun, you’ll be helping out by adding to the coffers of the baseball scholarship and field improvement funds.

In a way, golf will actually fit on the honey-do list, rather than be a sneaky aside to all those home improvement projects left hanging.

Flowers come in all different shapes and sizes, but rarely do they come in the form of small children.

“Today you’re an apple flower,” Melinda Rabbit DeFeo, of Island Grown Schools, said as her student petals stood around her in Chilmark earlier this week. The Edgartown fourth grade had traveled to the home of Peter Norris to pick apples and learn how they grow.

Remember to bring a little music and art into your life. In recognition of Alzheimer’s awareness month, on Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m., the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital will offer a one-hour presentation followed by open discussion on care giving for all stages of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

The session will include a special focus on music and art therapy as tools for increasing the quality of life for both caregivers and patients. It will be held in the hospital community room in the main lobby.

Whippoorwill Farm, home of the first Community Supported Agriculture program on the Vineyard, is moving its operation back to Old County Road.

In a newsletter from the farm that went out to CSA members on Tuesday, farm owner Andrew Woodruff said his decision was driven by impending new ownership for Thimble Farm, where he has operated for the past five years. A group called the Martha’s Vineyard Farm Project formed this summer to raise money and develop a plan to buy Thimble Farm.

Steve Morris of Oak Bluffs became a three-time derby winner on Sunday when he went home with a brand new 22-foot Eastern with an outboard an trailer for catching the largest bluefish from the shore, a 14.86-pounder.

Richard Penney, who caught a 46.15-pound striped bass from a boat, got the keys to a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck.

The two grand prize winners were among more than 100 fishermen who won prizes in the 66th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish derby this year.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

Oct. 7 61 49 Trace

Oct. 8 65 45 .00

Oct. 9 76 52 .00

Oct. 10 84 56 .00

Oct. 11 82 60 .00

Oct. 12 70 56 .00

Oct. 13 65 58 1.07

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 67º F.