The following letter is addressed to President Obama: The other day, watching some replays of the march on Washington in 1963, I was telling my eldest daughter about how, when the bus I was on left Boston, I waved to my husband and my three little children then three, four and six, and I was not necessarily sure that I would ever see them again. After the fact we know the march was peaceful; before the fact we did not know what might happen. My daughter asked me point blank: “Mom, why did you go?” I answered spontaneously: “Moral indignation.”

Our Pennywise Path Run/Walk to the New Library was a big success. We raised money for the library, but also raised awareness of the Edgartown Public Library’s many contributions to the life of the town. The Edgartown police, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank, the Edgartown School as well as the Edgartown selectmen and trustees of the Library all worked with us to ensure a happy and safe run.

This Saturday and Sunday the Rev. Bert Marshall, executive director of the New England Chapter of CROP, will visit the Island to help prepare for the 23rd Annual Church World Service/CROP Walk from Vineyard Haven to Oak Bluffs and back again on Oct. 27.

I am not happy to have to write this, but I have been watching and supporting my friend Reynaldo Faust in the inaugural season of his very successful Fat Ronnies restaurant on Circuit avenue.

Martha’s Vineyard Transport has to reply to the edited interview for a Vineyard Gazette article published two weeks ago. The essence of the interview about business on Martha’s Vineyard when the president spends his summer vacation was totally distorted by an edit.

Ben and Sally Taylor and fellow musician Noah Stuber wowed a sold-out audience in their benefit performance Tuesday, August 27, at the West Tisbury Library Foundation’s Tuesday at Twilight concert at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury.