The first time I met Jules Feiffer I was a kid with few publishing credits, he was God, and we were both wet.

I took a drive the other morning, as I do most mornings, to Squibnocket. It was sunny and windy and cold, and my son-in-law Calder was waxing his board to go surfing with a friend.

The Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation’s annual education scholarships are now accepting applications.

We have no adoptions to report this week, but our pet of the week is an awesome eight-month-old chocolate Labrador retriever/pit bull mix named Maple.

For the first time in its history, the Vineyard Gazette publishes a news notice in the Portuguese language, this being the first official notice ordered by William H. Andrews, president of the newly organized Portuguese-American Club League.

The Edgartown Library doubles as an art gallery thanks to a collection bequeathed to the town of Edgartown in the 1930s by Charles Simpson.

Magic: The Gathering players gather regularly across the Island to play the fantasy card game, known for its expansive lore and complicated rules.

The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse is beginning its Winter Stars program next week.

It was not the funny bone, but certainly humerus.

During the last year, this column documented a remarkable 284 species seen on the Vineyard.