Community
Robert Burns, the bard of Scotland, would have had a pleasant evening at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown on Saturday night. More than 100 Vineyarders turned out for the 24th annual Robert Burns Nicht Supper. There were toasts. Members of the Scottish Society of Martha’s Vineyard recited the poet’s words and sang his lyrics. They shared in the humor of a good Scottish story.
Cultural Luncheon
The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living is hosting a cultural luncheon from noon until 2 p.m. at the Grill on Main street in Edgartown on Saturday, Jan 29.
The topic for this lunch is the influence and contributions of African Americans on Martha’s Vineyard.
Speakers include Carrie Tankard, Elaine Weintraub and Tom Dresser, author of African Americans on Martha’s Vineyard from Enslavement to Presidential Visit.
Eat, Bid and Help Hockey
The annual Vineyard hockey dinner and auction will take place Friday, Jan. 21 at the Harbor View Hotel.
The event will include a silent and live auction with a range of items up for bid including Red Sox tickets, Nascar tickets, one week in Florida, a one night stay at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge and a clambake for eight.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for the silent auction, dinner begins at 7 p.m. and the live auction gets under way at 8 p.m.
Tickets for the dinner cost $35.
Why Can’t Grownups Have Story Time?
It is cold outside. Snow dots the landscape. Smoke billows from chimneys. Stars light the way on Island roads as early as five o’clock. What better time, really, than to curl up with a good story.
Quilt Winner
The raffle held to benefit the African Artists Community Development Project was drawn on Christmas Day out of the Tuareg basket. Susan Spence was the winner of a beautiful quilt that was a collaboration between craftswomen in Lusaka, Zambia, who sewed the panels, and women on Martha’s Vineyard, who pieced the quilt together.
Big Bike Ride for Cancer
Three Martha’s Vineyard residents raised $39,371 for cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute by riding up to 190 miles in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge this summer.
The efforts of Erik Blake of Oak Bluffs, Roch Hillenbrand of Edgartown, and Eric Berke of Aquinnah helped the challenge raise $33 million and bring the organization’s 31-year total Jimmy Fund contribution to $303 million.