Arts & Entertainment
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church is holding an open house on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Besides the refreshments and warm drinks, there will be opportunities to focus on the Christmas turkey drive, Christmas cards for veterans, raising funds for children in the Holy Land and a mission project in El Salvador. The church is located at 51 Winter street in Edgartown.
Chappy, there really is a Santa. Take a scenic sleigh ride through Chappaquiddick on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 14 and 15. The Trustees of Reservations are offering Cape Pogue sleigh rides, and they’ll throw in a warm blanket and a cup of hot chocolate.
The Chilmark library offers a nearly monthlong book sale just in time for the holidays and maybe a snowy night of reading. The sale continues every day until noon on Dec. 28.
The First Congregational Church of West Tisbury presents its Christmas concert, which includes Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 4 p.m.
Holiday shopping supports the African Artists Community Development Project with a pop-up store on Main street in Edgartown this weekend. Marsha Winsryg will present a short slideshow illustrating the work of the project. Handmade crafts that benefit disabled and orphaned children in Zambia will be for sale, not to mention homemade chai and cookies.
With the temperature in the low 30s and a wintry mix blowing in off the East River, it was a morning fit for neither man nor beast. And yet a calm but energized feel pervaded as the Beach Plum crew got down to work creating the pop-up restaurant Fish and Rose.
