Scots and non-Scots are welcome when the Scottish Society celebrates National Tartan Day, April 6, with a potluck supper at the Federated Church in Edgartown. There is no charge.

Entertainment will be a mini-concert by Joe Keenan, whose performance will include the well-known Scottish traditional tunes.

A special tribute will be paid to James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball. Mr. Naismith came to the Vineyard one summer from his base at the YMCA in Springfield, Mass., which now houses the James Naismith Hall of Fame.

Hunger Banquet

On Thursday, March 26 at 6 p.m. if you go to the Regional High School Cafeteria, you will get a free dinner, with a side order of education. The Vineyard Committee on Hunger is sponsoring a Hunger Banquet to educate the public about world hunger.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

“I was a musician before I was a physician,” says Jay Segel, discussing the songwriting class he offers at Featherstone Center for the Arts. “My long-term goal is to create a place of creativity where songwriters have a chance to critique in a warmhearted way.”

Spaghetti Dinner