If you and the kiddies have missed speaking with Santa on Island this year, plan to be at the Wharf on Sunday for Breakfast with Santa. Proceeds raised will go to Red Stocking.
You all know me well by now. The column that gets published Thanksgiving week lists my favorite causes for your holiday gift-giving remembrances. Get out your checkbooks and a pen. Get comfortable in your favorite chair. Here is this year’s list, not so very different from previous years: Red Stocking. So every Island kid has something under the tree. While toys are accepted, new and unwrapped, for donation, the main purpose is each child gets warm clothes, mittens, scarves, jackets, hats, and pajamas.
First time in Texas? It won’t be her last. Tamma Willoughby returned from a long stay in beautiful San Marcos. Tamma went to check on and help out her daughter Ashley. Ashley married Sam Byrd, as you know, and moved to his hometown.
The haunting of William street! Apparently, the kind and stalwart neighbors on this brief four blocks of Vineyard Haven were inundated with our little ghosts and goblins on All Hallow’s Eve.
With great sadness our community learned of the death of Brian Murdoch, who died unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, Oct. 16. He had only been pastor of our Grace Episcopal Church on the Island for two years. He certainly packed those two years. He was passionate about people, a friend to all, and available in any time of need.
I have known Mike Jacobs of Chilmark since he was a teenager. I am so pleased to see how he has grown into a man and a concerned citizen, especially mindful of sustainable energy problems and solutions both on and off Island. Mike is involved with the Vineyard Energy Project’s formation in 2009 of the Vineyard Power Co-op.
Sunday, Sept. 25 was a beautiful day for a walk. It was also my Dad’s 100th birthday. Dad passed 18 years ago. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s. I usually participate in the Cape and Islands walk to end Alzheimer’s. But here I was, in my Old Country, on Dad’s birthday, and nothing would do but for me to walk in White Plains in the Hudson Valley Alzheimer’s fundraiser.
