On behalf of the friends of Tim Fullin fundraiser committee, we would like to thank all for the outpouring of support on Saturday, Nov. 3. The night was full of great food, great items but most important great family, friends and love!

The country has been roughed up by politics but the Northeast even more roughed up by storms in the past week, as if nature was sending some kind of furious message about who’s really in charge.

The Island was scoured by the northern edge of Hurricane Sandy early last week and then this week a ripping, two-day northeaster cancelled ferries and planes and flooded roads and beaches for the second time in ten days.

Some say the Island shifts after Labor Day, with roads suddenly quieter and Five Corners again a place of corners rather than complaints over traffic and long waits. Others point to Columbus Day as the moment of reckoning. More stores close. Leaves change color and bid adieu to their branches, echoing the slump and slide of a shoulder season on the wane.

The Family to Family Holiday Meals Program, which provides holiday meals to distressed families and is distributed through the Serving Hands Food Distribution at the First Baptist Church in Vineyard Haven, is again asking for help. For more than eight years, the good people of Martha’s Vineyard

On behalf of the friends of Tim Fullin fundraiser committee, we would like to thank all for the outpouring of support on Saturday, Nov. 3. The night was full of great food, great items but most important great family, friends and love!

Sad to say, I come from a long line of people who bump into doors, sweep punch bowls from tables, and drag dog doo into rooms, inadvertently stamping it into rugs and floorboards because the person with the soiled shoe can’t understand why everyone’s yelling at him. My dad was a one-man demolition derby. At six foot one and rangy, he was part Hulk, part Absent-Minded Professor, and he broke one out of every five chairs on which he plunked himself. The sight gag was perfect.