Please Adopt Us

It’s hard to believe Thanksgiving is less than a week away. There are many animals at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard that need loving homes. Please stop by and see them!

BRAD WOODGER

508-627-4216

(ibwsgolf@aol.com)

No, I can’t. Which is okay. Chappy teaches limitations. There’s much emphasis on our potential these days, but sometimes it’s good to know where potential meets the horizon. And stops. Just stops.

NANCY GARDELLA

508-693-3308

(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)

JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

Chilmark is still alive with the bright yellows and reds of the fall foliage. I was wrong to think that they wouldn’t survive the winds of last week. We are still enjoying lovely roadside displays of color. Enjoy every minute the next winds will carry them away.

JUNE D. MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks@gis.net)

Another nice week with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. The final remnants of the fall foliage are very beautiful as you travel down Middle Road in Chilmark and even more spectacular as you drive up Music street.

The Vineyard Gazette office will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. The newspaper will publish on Friday as usual and the office will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day. Correspondents are reminded that early deadlines apply this week.

The full moon is Sunday night. It rises in the eastern sky about the same time as the sun sets in the west. The moon is near the star cluster Pleiades, in the zodiacal constellation Taurus.

We’re waiting to see just what we are waiting for. Confused? So are the students in the high school’s fall production of Waiting for Godot, but the program note from opening night on Thursday is an example of what the students have come to embrace in what they all agree is the most challenging play they’ve ever performed.

Hard Knock Lifers Shine Brightly

This weekend the students from the Oak Bluffs School will be proving that yes, the sun does come out tomorrow. Metaphorically, at least, given the state of the weather on the Island these days.

It’s Annie we’re talking about, the story of the irrepressible young girl who won’t let anything get her down — not the Depression, the orphanage, Miss Hannigan, Lily St. Regis nor a perpetually gray November on the Vineyard.

Some people have all the luck. While Phoebe Potts isn’t one of them, she does say, “I was the right female infertile cartoonist at the right time.” Indeed she was, and because of that, the luck this time is ours.