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Jewelry Jingle
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum will celebrate Christmas In Edgartown on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 2 to 4 p.m. with its first Jewelry Jingle. Stop by the museum at 59 School street for wine, hot cider, chocolate treats and shopping.
This sale of used jewelry, gleaned from attics, jewelry boxes and dresser drawers from all over the Island, will benefit the museum’s on-going operations.
To donate used jewelry, please call 508-627-4441 extension 123.
Oak Bluffs Christmas
Oak Bluffs is hosting an old-fashioned Christmas party Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. at Offshore Ale on Kennebec avenue. Bring the entire family for an afternoon of caroling, cookie decorating, ornament making, music by Wes Nagy and a photo op with Santa. The award for best window decor in Oak Bluffs will be announced at 5 p.m. For details, call 508-693-2626.
The Hagen household was decidedly uneventful. John Hagen stood outside with Sabu, the practically pony-sized family dog. Elsewhere on the Island, bells rang and kids ran out of classrooms, slinging backpacks into cars. In a matter of moments, the hustle and bustle spilled into the Hagen driveway.
Edgartown School Fair
The Edgartown School’s 15th annual Christmas in Edgartown art and crafts fair brings together more than 30 Island artists in the Edgartown School gymnasium tomorrow, on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The show will feature Island jewelry, bath and body products, fiber arts, photography, leather, woodwork, candy, knit ware, ornaments, candles, shell craft and more.
Families and music lovers from across the Island will gather on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Oak Bluffs for the 11th annual Reflections of Peace concert. This holiday tradition celebrates and benefits Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard.
Songs of the season will be performed by a cappella group Novum, Shelley Brown, Brad Austin and Kevin Ryan, and the West Tisbury Congregational Choir.
Instrumental offerings will be performed by the Katama Trio, the Vineyard Handbell Choir, and organist Wesley Brown.
When celebrity chef Jamie Oliver found students at an English elementary school eating a quarter-ton of chips each week in lunches that cost less to make than those at nearby prisons, he did something completely unexpected. He signed up as a lunch lady — bringing his fame, culinary skill and television production crew. In the four-episode series that followed, the ebullient Mr. Oliver faced student revolts, cafeterias losing money, and parents smuggling junk food over school fences.