Art
Playhouse Fall Season
The Vineyard Playhouse is starting up its fall season this weekend with a series of short plays entitled Hot Tickets.
On Saturday and Sunday, both nights at 7:30 p.m., the evening will feature The Graduation of Grace by Wendy Kesselman, The Last Appointment by Madge Kaplan, and Slow Train Coming by Maureen Hourihan. The following weekend the plays will be Maker’s Mark by Alexandra Bullen The Lovers by Marisa Michelson and Joshua H. Cohen.
Early Detection Curve
Get a mammogram and pay no fee for fitness. That’s the theme at Curves in Vineyard Haven for the month of October. In recognition of breast cancer awareness month and to raise awareness about the importance of early detection, the women’s fitness center will waive the joining fee for members who show proof of a mammogram within the last year or make a $25 donation to breast cancer research.
For more information call 508-696-3030, or visit curves.com.
Hookers of Rugs
On Wednesday, Oct. 5, Rosalie Powell began a series of rug hooking classes which will run for eight successive Wednesdays. The first meeting was mostly a matter of preparation, gathering materials and grouping folks together depending on their experience. This means there’s still plenty of time to climb aboard before the real work begins.
If your idea of a homemade gift of food is a paper plate of chocolate chip cookies (recipe on the package; can’t go wrong with that), bound up in cellophane and tied with a ribbon, then the new book Gourmet Gifts: 100 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion to Make Yourself and Wrap With Style (Harvard Common Press, $19.95), is going to make you feel like the last Neanderthal when the Cro-Magnons announced, “Look, we just do everything better.”
Long Putt Nets $10,000
Stuart Minton’s deft skills on the putting green won him $10,000 after he sank a 40-foot putt in the 12th annual Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank Golf Classic on Monday, Sept. 26, hosted by the Vineyard Nursing Association.
Mr. Minton, part of the Donaroma’s Nursery foursome, became the first player in the history of the golf classic to win the putting contest. He was selected to make the prize-winning putt after his name was drawn from a pool of qualifiers.
Block Party Rhythms
This Saturday, Oct. 8, the Tisbury Business Association is hosting a sidewalk sale from noon to 4 p.m. There will be music by Rick Bausman, outdoor eating and big sales as businesses celebrate both the holiday and say thanks to their Island customers who support them all year long.