The weather has been a delightful tease, easily stretching out the swimming season happily through November, and I am eternally grateful for this delay of seasons. If you didn’t cut back some of your fall vegetables, you should still be enjoying a garden bounty, and Thanksgiving is merely two weeks away. I know many are wondering where the Food Truck is; well, it’s undergoing some repair work, and let’s keep our fingers crossed that Monday, Nov. 16, we’ll have delicious local eats in the Chilmark Store parking lot. See you online; even if you have your own soup cooking on the stove, can’t beat those rosemary fries.
Ingrid Goff Maidoff has created a new miniature book, “Questions & Invitations to Illuminate the Soul.” Ingrid wrote on her website, “I was minding my own business this week when an enchanting little book of soul questions asked to be created. I put it in my pocket and carried it out on my walks, and had to keep stopping to read it again and again.” So will you; if you need a lift, this may just be the inspiration you are looking for.
Maybe you are looking for calm distraction in your life. Come to the Aquinnah library Thursday, Nov. 12, from 5 to 6 pm for an Adult Coloring Group. Enjoy conversation and light refreshments while relieving stress and getting creative. Bring your own coloring book or enjoy theirs. No need to register, just drop in!
Need a break from the quiet up your dirt road? Get ready for short plays; come to the Grange on Friday, Nov. 13, at 7 pm for an enjoyable evening of four one-act plays – “Dating Hamlet,” “The Mating Season of Flying Monkeys,” “The Next Mrs. Jacob Anderson” and “The Real Problem.” Adult content. Mature audiences only. $15 at the door.
Even if you made it to the Barn Raisers Ball last weekend, you may just want to put your dancin’ shoes back on for the Martha’s Vineyard Charter School Fall Ball and live auction at the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs on Friday, Nov. 13, from 7 to 11 pm. $20 at the door.
The annual Health Fair, sponsored by the NAACP, will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 9 am to 1 pm at the MVRHS, featuring holistic, traditional, and nontraditional health care providers; there will be organ-donation screening and data. Dental hygiene and health care providers will present educational and informative material in their conventional medicine and holistic fields of expertise.
Meet at Polly Hill for a free arboretum walk from 10 to 11:15 am on Saturday, Nov. 14.
If you want to get involved with the Island Wide Youth Collaborative, drop by the open house in its new building at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services campus (next to the Y) on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 11 am to 3 pm, to meet staff and program partners, and to learn more about its programs and partnership opportunities.
Head over to the Chilmark library on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 3 to 5 pm when the Wampum show up-Island bead makers return to sell their wares.
If you’re looking for yarn, fabrics, or needles, the Vineyard Haven library is holding a benefit sale on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm. Expect great bargains.
West Tisbury library hosts its annual Community Poetry Reading on Sunday, Nov. 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. Come hear new West Tisbury Poet Laureate Emma Young and community members who will draw numbers from a hat to read. On Thursday, Nov. 19, at 6 pm, the West Tisbury library hosts “a group of Islanders is in the very early stages of creating an open Internet network which people here can use to connect sensors and beacons for individual, organizational, and business use. This early-stage ‘Congress of Tinkerers’ will gather input, collaborators, and advisors who will review the network hardware, suggest possible use-cases and pilot tests. Come learn about and help design our open, community-led Internet of Things Network.”