Open the doors to the Agricultural Hall on a Winter Farmers’ Market Saturday and the warm atmosphere immediately embraces you. A few steps in, familiar faces gather fireside on benches sharing stories and hearty food, while Kevin Keady and Don Groover provide the background music in the great room filled with local goods.

Turkey Burner Day

The YMCA feels the pain of your extended stomach. So much turkey, potatoes, stuffing, brussels sprouts (maybe?) and on and on. So what’s a beached whale supposed to do? Burn turkey, burn.

Free of charge, the Y is celebrating its second annual Turkey Burner Day on Friday, Nov. 25. What this means is you can sample all the Y has to offer, from the pool to exercise equipment and exercise classes, for free. The free child watch is also available.

Yes, there is no excuse.

World Dinner, Dance

On Saturday night, Nov. 26, the place to be is the World Dinner and Dance Party to benefit Media Voices for Children and the Kenyan Schoolhouse.

Media Voices for Children is an

Island-based Internet news agency for children’s rights. The goal of the organization is to raise public awareness about the impact of poverty and globalization on the world’s children via video, interactive media, documentary films and organizations.

Photo Contest

Who you calling an amateur photographer? Time to step it up and show the pros, not to mention naysayer uncle Joe, that your photos have game.

It’s the annual Martha’s Vineyard Magazine photo contest, a chance for professionals, almost pros, and even young Trudy (can you believe she’s 16 already?) to strut their stuff.

For Fairies and Trolls

This holiday season it’s time to think about the fairies. After all, come the cold winter months they certainly need homes, not to mention another warm log on the fire. Think how long you’d survive in a skimpy tutu and wings.

Don’t forget the trolls, either. They may be ugly but they’re not all bad. Especially the little ones.

Old Sculpin Opens

The Old Sculpin Gallery will be open for a brief show of artwork by Nina Gomez Gordon on Nov. 25 and 26 from noon to 5 p.m. On view will be paintings spanning over 17 years, including abstracts, figure studies from life, and landscapes, many works never before exhibited. Ms. Gordon earned a BA in Fine Art from Bowdoin College, and also attended Maine College of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for painting and sculpture. She currently publishes the Vineyard Fine Art Directory.

After the Turkey, Potluck and a Jam

There is Thanksgiving. You stuff yourself and then, for a moment, decide never to eat again. But just as quickly the feeling passes. You are no longer a bursting beach ball, but rather a ravenous bear, ready for more.

You creep to the fridge, under the cover of night, only to discover that Uncle Tully and Aunt Midge, who, let’s face it, really are bears, have eaten all the leftovers, right down to the moldy candied yams and Sugar Pops cereal you hid behind the spice rack.

Jameison Sennott was three years old when he first heard Stevie Wonder’s I Just Called To Say I Love You and picked out the melody on keyboard. Soon after, he climbed on to the bench of his aunt’s piano and played a rendition of Chopsticks. In high school, he found out he had perfect pitch.

Holiday Sale for Haiti

Peacecraft Holiday Benefit Sale begins today and continues through Dec. 24 from noon to 5 p.m. daily. One hundred per cent of the proceeds from the sale of the international handmade crafts and gifts benefits the poor and needy of Haiti and other countries.

The holiday pop-up store is located at 13 Beach Road Extension in Vineyard Haven across from Black Dog Tavern near the harbor.

For more information visit fishfarmhaiti.org. To volunteer this season, call Meg at 508-687-9709.

Care to Parade?

The 30th annual Edgartown Christmas parade is less than a month away on Saturday, Dec. 10, and the planning committee is already hard at work. Any businesses, civic and social organizations, clubs, churches and families who would like to participate in this year’s parade should contact the parade director, Jeff Winter, at 508-687-9097.