The Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha’s Vineyard announced this week that it has created a new fund and will hire its first full-time executive director, efforts designed to raise awareness of the organization and make more funds available more quickly on the Island.

Martin Luther King Walk

A walk to commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will start Monday, Jan. 21 at 9:30 a.m. Participants will meet in front of the Court House in Edgartown. The walk will start on Main street and end at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on North Summer street. There will be a brief talk, followed by a video of Dr. King. Refreshments will be served.

More information is available by calling Lori Sue Herman at 508- 627-9088 or Maureen McManus Hill at 508-627-9241.

The Martha’s Vineyard NAACP will hold its annual membership and awards brunch celebrating the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, 130 Centre street, Vineyard Haven.

The event will include a special tribute to Vera Shorter. Sadie Burton-Goss is the scheduled guest speaker.

International Dinners

International-themed meals will be served at the Dr. Daniel Fisher House in Edgartown to support the International Travel Fund at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School.

On Saturday, Jan. 12, a dinner of traditional fare from India will be served. On Jan. 26, a Jamaican dinner will be served.

Fish Talk

Fish, Fish, Fish will be the topic of Louis Larsen’s talk at the next Friends of the Library speakers bureau at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, at the Vineyard Haven library. Mr. Larsen is the owner of the Net Result. Refreshments will be served following the talk.

Curl up in the early winter dark and enjoy classic American literature as part of the new travelling Islandwide reading group called Fictions of Race in 20th Century America.