Late October swirls with the supernatural. Dropping temperatures, cheap candy and carved pumpkins all herald the coming of Halloween. Tomorrow, ethereal energies are converging at the Mystic Fair, a healing arts bazaar being held at the Vineyard Playhouse.

J.M. Barrie, the author who gave us Peter Pan, that fictional boy who never aged, knew there was one way in which we all never grow older. “God gave us memories that we might have roses in December,” he wrote.

And at the Tisbury Senior Center last Sunday, the roses of memory were in full bloom. Susan Klein’s memoirists were giving readings of their work.

On Sept. 22 at the regular meeting of the Oriental-Martha’s Vineyard Lodge, Sgt. Daniel (Cuzy) Dunlap presented to his lodge the flag that had flown over his company headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. In the photograph that he also presented he appears near the bunker in which he waited out a mortar attack for nine hours on his birthday. A certificate signed by his commanding officers accompanies the flag. These will be displayed in the lodge room. His Masonic brethren met him at the boat on his return on Flag Day, last June 14.