By KATE J. CONDE

It’s the season of The School Play, the least cynical theatrical event in the business. Behind the curtains — that is, where there are stage curtains — schoolkids across the Island have been cooing over each other’s costumes, sketching each other’s faces with greasepaint, and studying lines and stage directions as well as for their math and science tests. Cue the butterflies, the beaming parents, the misty eyes and the magic that can’t be captured anywhere but on those boards.

Lily Morris holds three feet of line, with one end in each hand and the rest dangling between her arms.

“This is the bitter end,” she says, indicating the portion in her right hand, “the end that you work with when you’re tying a knot. And this is the standing end, the part that attaches to something else,” she says, wiggling her left hand. “The section in the middle is called the bight.”

Vineyard House is hosting a potluck with The Sisters, including Sister Rose and Sister Maurice from the Bronx, bright, big-hearted, down-to-earth women who tell engaging, funny tales of living with the daily struggle of a habit, from the perspective of a nun’s habit.

Scots and non-Scots are welcome when the Scottish Society celebrates National Tartan Day, April 6, with a potluck supper at the Federated Church in Edgartown. There is no charge.

Entertainment will be a mini-concert by Joe Keenan, whose performance will include the well-known Scottish traditional tunes.

A special tribute will be paid to James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball. Mr. Naismith came to the Vineyard one summer from his base at the YMCA in Springfield, Mass., which now houses the James Naismith Hall of Fame.

On April 4, laugh with WIMP and get the IMPers to the Chicago Improv Festival. The IMPers, Martha’s Vineyard’s teen professional improv troupe, scored an invitation to perform at the international Chicago Improv Festival alongside headliners from major motion pictures and television shows like Mad TV and Saturday Night Live. In the history of the festival this honor has only been extended to a handful of teen troupes. This is the second group of young improvisors from the Vineyard to receive this honor.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Walking into the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest off of Barnes Road, the sound of clinking chains echoes in the air. It may not mean much to the unsuspecting listener, but it is a sweet sound to the frisbee golfer. It means that their frisbee found the basket.

Last Saturday, Martha’s Vineyard hosted their annual frisbee golf tournament — the Vineyard Social V. This year was marked by a record turnout for the competition — almost sold out. There were eighty-nine players, ranging from professionals to intermediate frisbee golfers.

Don’t let Mother Nature fool you. She can take a joke.

She was, perhaps, the original jokester, fooling us with species such as “false albacore” and “false foxglove,” and fooling us at this time of the year with crazy and variable weather. From snowstorms to sunny skies, anything is possible in April.

Soccer Registration

Walk-in registration for youth soccer’s spring recreational season will be held on Saturday, April 4, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School cafeteria. Online registration is now open at mvsoccer.org. This program is for: Minikickers (kindergarten-first grade), Under-8s (second and third grade) and Under 10s (fourth and fifth grades). Games start on May 2.