Heard on Main Street: Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society will present the Women in Film Festival from Oct. 13 to 15. The opening film on Friday, Oct. 13, at 4 pm, is “Joan Baez I Am a Noise,” described as an intimate portrait of folk singer and activist Joan Baez. This documentary shifts back and forth through time, and is said to be remarkably revealing about her life on- and offstage. Tickets on sale now.
The Vineyard Haven library invites you to a Church Street Tennis Pick-Up Game at 10 am on Sunday, Oct 8. Start with a traditional doubles warm-up, play a set or two, then sweep the courts before we leave. This will continue, weather permitting, through the season. Delays will be posted on the VHPL website.
You can join Caroline Joy Adams online for “How to Write a Mini-Memoir,” session 2 of 4, monthly, from 6 to 7:30 pm on Tuesday, Oct 10. Learn how to focus and begin work. Register now at our library. Or sign up for Moira Silva’s “Writing Workshop,” monthly online, session 1 of 4, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 10:30 am to noon, with exercises, readings, and discussion.
Adults, age 12 and up, are invited to our library at 1 pm on Sunday, Oct. 15, to learn how to make a woven Autumn Wreath and decorate it with paper and wood flowers. Attendance is limited to first arrivals, while supplies last.
The Vineyard Haven library will host “Memory Training” from 3:30 to 5:30 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Oct 17, 18, 24, and 25. It offers training in some techniques to improve memory for those with mild memory concerns.
The Martha’s Vineyard Library Association has partnered with Brainfuse, a national online education company, to provide free online tutoring and homework help to all Martha’s Vineyard library cardholders, available seven days a week to anyone with a library card from any of the six Martha’s Vineyard libraries. Brainfuse HelpNow is an online learning platform that provides real-time tutoring and homework assistance in core subjects (math, reading, writing, science, and social studies) and other learning tools. Online homework help, writing assistance, and collaboration tools are available 24 hours a day, with live tutoring available from 2 pm to 11 pm. All live tutoring sessions are saved, and can be replayed as well as shared with teachers.
The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse offers “Billy Baloo: A Musical Tale of Love, Gold, and Beavers.” In 1879 in the town of Solderville, high up in the Colorado Rockies, there live three gold prospectors and a floater, Billy Baloo. When the heiress of the Perfection General Store arrives in town, a dream is born. The town is transformed, and its population explodes, bringing tasty vittles, love, strife, and danger. Fortunately Billy’s boat is sturdy, and the beavers are on his side. Shows at 7 pm on Oct. 6 to 7, 10 to 15, and 17 to 20.
Michael Mason began writing about Billy Baloo in 1973, inspired by the songs of Jemima James. He worked on it intermittently until he died in February 2023. He had begun talks around its first staged production with the Playhouse’s artistic director, MJ Bruder Munafo. Willy Mason, son of Michael and Jemima, adapted the script for this small theater production, and presents it here with MJ, Jemima, and his brother Sam, in loving memory. Call 508-696-6300 for more information.
The Playhouse Art Space is now open from noon to 3 pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Artwork by Marston Clough, “In My Mind’s Eye” is on exhibit and for sale until Friday, Oct. 27.
Big bunches of birthday balloon wishes go out to Donald Childs tomorrow. Happy birthday to Pat Benway on Tuesday.
Heard on Main Street: Patience is a virtue. It just isn’t one of mine.
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