On April 30 the Vineyard Committee on Hunger brings the issue to the center of the plate, so to speak, at its annual Hunger Banquet. The dinner reveals the disparity in food security around the world in a simple yet direct manner.

Eben in Hebrew means stone, so becoming a stonemason seemed liked destiny for Eben Armer, founder of Contact Stone. His father first brought him to a jobsite when he was five years old. He's never left.

At age 81 Oak Bluffs poet laureate Michael Achille prefers the quiet side of inspiration. As for advice on the poetic life, he says, “you have to be a real feeling person and just have an interest in things.”

Cost estimates for a ferry to replace the Governor and a plan to rebuild the Woods Hole terminal top the agenda of the Steamship Authority governors this morning. The monthly board meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Marine Biological Laboratory Candle House in Woods Hole.

Nat Benjamin’s Juno and Ross Gannon’s Eleda placed first in their class at the Caribbean regatta held over the weekend. Races concluded Monday. Eleda also won the Arne Frisell Prize for greatest attention to structural integrity and safety.

Marylee Schroeder of West Tisbury will run her eleventh Boston Marathon this year. Her husband Joe will be standing at mile 26, the corner of Hereford and Commonwealth, along with son Mikey and daughter Whitney.