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English Classes
Nancy Gardella is offering a free weekly ESL class at the Edgartown Public Library on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The group will not meet on Nov. 11. For more information, call 508-627-4221,
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 has a paranoid hatred of 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.
Tonight is an evening for turning lemons into lemonade.
Islander Joyce Garde, a 14-year cancer survivor, was recently diagnosed with another cancer. Rather than fight the battle alone, she is celebrating with friends and is doing it in style — at a benefit held tonight in her honor at Lola’s restaurant in Oak Bluffs. All are invited to join her from 7 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. for free finger food, live deejay music, dancing, and a silent auction. The suggested donation is $20 at the door.
Make Space for Peace
PeaceCraft volunteers are seeking a donated space and more volunteers to host their annual sale of crafts from Third World self-help projects.
Organized annually since 1997, this holiday season sale of beautiful, hand- made, affordable gifts help fund projects in the poorest areas of our world including the Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti Project.
For more information please contact Margaret Pénicaud at 508-693-0368.
The Flying Elbows, the Island’s own old-time string band, will crank out another night of zany songs and high- energy fiddle tunes next Friday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
Currently a foursome, this band has been through many incarnations over the years. Original member Bob Hammond is back with the band, adding not only a twin fiddle but also some really rootsy clawhammer banjo.