JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

(alleys@vineyard.net)

The weather was awful on Saturday, and Sunday we received nearly five inches of rain. Barbara Day reports that Saturday’s Living Local Harvest Festival events at the hall were well attended despite the weather. Not as many people as last year attended the harvest potluck dinner nor the Antique Power Show, likely because of the downpours. Some leaves have turned, displaying brilliant colors of fall foliage.

JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

It may be October already but many Chilmarkers are still entertaining guests, seasonal visitors are still arriving and many weddings are still part of every weekend. This past weekend was a very wet one, but the newlyweds will be assured by many of us that a wet September wedding in Chilmark will be fondly remembered. They will share that memory with Herb and me as we celebrated the anniversary of a wet wedding day in September 43 years ago.

The Vineyard Haven Public Library, Quest of Martha’s Vineyard, and the Martha’s Vineyard Museum announce the public launch of the Tisbury Village Quest.

HOLLY NADLER

508-687-9239

(hollynadler@gmail.com)

The big thing these days in eco circles is sharing stuff. Recently Oak Bluffs artist Betty Wolfson told me that back home in Northampton, she and her neighbors hold a lawnmower in common, since at no time on the planet has an entire block of homeowners been seized with the urge to mow their lawns at the exact same time.

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

RICK HERRICK

508-693-8065

(herricklr@verizon.net)

Do you remember Stephen Blacklow, the kid who managed the tennis club in 1981? Well, 10 years later that kid graduated from Harvard Medical School with a combined MD/Ph.D. Today he runs that program at Harvard with a deep commitment toward training physician/scientists.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

Sept. 26 67 60 .62

Sept. 27 68 62 2.08

Sept. 28 71 65 2.23

Sept. 29 71 63 .04

Sept. 30 69 58 .06

Oct. 1 70 60 .02

Oct. 2 72 56 .32

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 69º F.

The New York art scene is the setting for Saturday night’s film, Guest of Cindy Sherman, screening at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.

This feature documentary (88 minutes) is directed by Paul H-O and Tom Donahue.

In this serialized year-long 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 has a paranoid hatred of 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 is obsessed with “taking down” Moby. Abe has rented a fishing boat for the Derby, knowing that Moby is also fishing.

Outerland, the Island’s only nightclub, is up for sale. Aboveground Records and Offshore Ale have cut back on their performances. The Oyster Bar’s entertainment license was revoked this summer. The Wintertide is gone. The old Atlantic Connection is now an amusement arcade.

Is it that hard to put on a little music?

Well, clearly Vineyard music promotion is a tough racket, but the pervading sentiment of those working in music on the Island is that it can be done.