Charter School

Monday, Nov. 12: Veterans Day, no school.

Tuesday, Nov. 13: Corn chowder, grilled cheese sandwich, peach crisp and milk.

Wednesday, Nov. 14: Bagels with cream cheese, tuna salad or melted cheese and tomato, Moroccan salad, pineapple and milk.

Thursday, Nov. 15: Pizza (plain cheese, pepperoni or pesto and artichoke, tossed salad, fresh fruit and milk.

Friday, Nov. 16: Baked chicken, black beans, sweet potatoes, brown rice, pears and milk.

Edgartown

Small Wonders Show

Louisa Gould Gallery will opens its annual Small Wonders show the day after Thanksgiving, on Friday, Nov. 23, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. This show features Marjorie Mason’s new oils, Robert Jewett’s ceramics and pottery and Louisa Gould and Thaw Malin’s new small paintings. This event is free with refreshments and entertainment.

Free Shakespeare is available this weekend, from the awardwinning drama department at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Shaking up their usual fall program, the student thepians are performing selected scenes from the Bard and other playwrights instead of a single play.

Tonight at 7 p.m. it’s selected scenes from As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet.

On Saturday, Nov. 10 at 1 p.m., the Martha’s Vineyard Skate Park Association will hold its third competition at the skate park, which is on the Vineyard Haven-Edgartown Road across from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. The rain date is Sunday, Nov. 11.

Registration is $10, with the money going to benefit the park. Registration begins at the skate park at noon. Helmets are required for all skaters. Food and beverages will be provided to entrants.

The Patriots-Colts tilt last week had Super Bowl-type hype but about two dozen Pats Island faithfuls enjoyed the game in relative secrecy.

“Hey, don’t tell. Let’s keep this a secret,” joked Lenny Verville of Oak Bluffs to this reporter at Outerland on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Verville and his friend Linda Hammond were enveloped by the surround sounds of the game, watching a crisp, life-size game picture on an eight-by-fourteen-foot screen set up on the Outlerland stage.

Starfish Talk

Director of the Marine and Paleobiological Research Institute Fred Hotchkiss will present a lecture entitled Starfish and the Number Five at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The talk features the mystery of the starfish’s five-part symmetry, common in the plant world but a rarity in the animal world.

Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard will present Handmade from the Heart again this Christmas season.

All local artisans from candlestick makers to bakers are invited to contribute to this holiday fundraiser for Hospice.

The items will be sold at the Dr. Daniel Fisher House on Main street in Edgartown on Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hospice is seeking any unique, handmade items, including jewelry, needlepoint, knitted items, paintings, photographs, Christmas ornaments and more.

Miles Arrives

Andrea Falgout-Hirt and John Hirt Jr. of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Miles Ondrej Hirt, born on Oct. 31 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Miles weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth.

JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

Chilmark survived the big blow on Saturday. Our roadsides still have trees with colorful fall foliage although there are fewer trees in some places. A number of trees and limbs of trees blew down, mostly, along North Road. Work crews cleaned everything up quickly and no routes were blocked.

The storm was a long one with blowing sand at Menemsha and torn leaves were everywhere. Most Chilmark folk took it all in stride.

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kcase1@verizon.net)

I love it when the sun is shining and there is a cool breeze in the air. It rejuvenates you and means the time has come to get the winter clothes out and bring in some wood for the fireplace.

Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. I was in the cleaning mode yesterday and accidentally threw away the birthday list. Polly Davies is always to my rescue, however, so look for your name next week.