Screenplay Contest
Dick Upson, a longtime Chilmark summer resident as well as a former Vineyard radio personality on WVOI-FM, just won the 2007 Horror Screenplay Competition’s Grand Prize from the Rhode Island International Film Festival for a horror film that is set on the Vineyard.
Mr. Upson is a professor of communications at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I.
HOLLY NADLER
508-693-3880
(sunporch@vineyard.net)
A couple of suggestions, the first for giving a boost to the Oak Bluffs economy, the second for doing the same for our general well-being:
One: We should go on the euro. This is the form of currency in the western world that’s got some snap to it. The dollar’s a loser. Let’s dump it.
Margaret Knight>
508 627-8894
(margaret02539@yahoo.com)
Chappaquiddick had its first snow last Sunday evening. The tentative white covering was gone when I got up early the next morning. Still, it proves that winter has begun, unofficially anyway. There was ice on Brine’s Pond on Wednesday morning. Christmas in Edgartown always comes a bit before the official day as well, and all kinds of events are scheduled for this weekend.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
(kcase1@verizon.net)
I think the little bit of snow that fell on Wednesday may have been enough to put people in the mood for Christmas. The trees are up in some houses and the Island is starting to glow with outside lights.
Museum Winter Hours
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum announces expanded hours for December: the gift shop of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum and the Pease House galleries will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, from now through Dec. 22. The shop will be on open on Saturday, when from 2 to 4 p.m. shoppers can choose jewelry of gold, silver, handcrafted, retro and of questionable taste.
Writer Holly Nadler of Oak Bluffs is busily scribbling away at a sequel to her book Haunted Island: True Ghost Stories of Martha’s Vineyard, released by Down East Books in 1994, and now going into its ninth printing. The new book will be titled Vineyard Supernatural: True Ghost Stories from America’s Most Haunted Island, expected to go on sale in the fall of 2008.
Welcome Maverick
Karen Ann Casper and Pieter Pil of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Maverick Christopher Robert Gedeon Pil, born on Nov. 28 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.
The scalloping season opened this week. So far there is an abundance of scallops, with everyone getting their three-bushel limit within a reasonable amount of time. The scallops are also a good size, easier to cut, and quite delectable. The weather has been cold, windy, and rainy, seemingly unsure whether or not to snow. Deer season will be coming to a close for those hunters who chose shotgun. It is continuing for archery and primitive firearms. Thank you to all who donated deer to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). The venison will be served at the December elders’ luncheon along with a feast of scallops provided by Bret Stearns.
