Rose Treat turns 100 on Sunday. At 99, she is genial, relaxed and aware, if a bit hard of hearing. Though she uses a walker to get around, she is energetic and excited to share. She stands no more than five feet tall, and yet the strength of her character fills the room. She is without question an Island treasure. Her history is long and as full of life and variety as the sea by which she lives.

The Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven introduces a two-part November rock and roll cinema program this weekend with Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong. The Pumpkins film screens tonight, Friday, Nov. 7 at 9:15 p.m. and Monday, Nov. 10 at 7 and again at 9:15 p.m.

The second film, The Who: Live at Kilburn 1977, will be showing Saturday, Nov. 15 at 4 and 9:15 p.m.

Thomas Bena, founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, stood in front of a mostly full house at the Chilmark community center last Wednesday night, and shared an anecdote.

“I can remember one night a few years ago when a man approached me on his way out the door. He told me that he appreciated what we were doing here, but that the film we had just shown was repetitive and just generally not very good. I thanked him for his thoughts and was watching him leave when someone else came up to me and said ‘Do you know who that guy was?’”

The word library comes to us from the Latin librarius , meaning of, or relating to, books. But anyone visiting the Oak Bluffs Public Library on a Thursday afternoon might find such a definition sorely outdated.

A healthy breeze blew through the trees on a recent Tuesday morning at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. The various buildings strewn about the green glens and pasture land of the 6.5-acre campus were empty excepting the art studio, wherein a small group of friends were quietly assembling for what has become, for many artists, an integral part of their weekly schedule.