JUNE MANNING
508-645-2574
The fall foliage display that we have enjoyed on the Vineyard is coming to an abrupt close with the leaves blowing off the trees and now dotting the landscape along the roadways. We have enjoyed beautiful weather this week with temperatures in the 60s and the roses are still in bloom at the Howes House. Grass is beginning to green and reappear in many areas and is now awaiting a final mow for the season.
Janette Vanderhoop will read excerpts from her book Wampanoag People of the First Light at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School this evening at 6:30 p.m. sponsored by the Adult Education classes of ACE MV. Admission is free.
Christopher Murphy and James Newman are inviting all Peace Corps volunteers and staff to a potluck gathering at the home of Chris Murphy on Nov. 14. Please call Chris at 508-693-6610 for directions to his home and for further information.
The annual meeting of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will be held on Sunday, Nov. 15 with voting from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The meeting commences at noon. Lunch will be served. Please remember you will need your tribal ID card to enter the voting booth and to attend the annual meeting. Eight tribal members are running for four tribal council seats.
A special town meeting for the town of Aquinnah will be held on Tuesday evening, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Aquinnah Town Hall. There are 12 articles on the warrant, which should take less than one hour to complete if all moves along as planned.
The first official meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Island Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists will convene on Wednesday evening, Nov. 18. at 7:30 p.m. at the Family History Center in the Merchants Mart Unit #4 on State Road in Tisbury across from the Black Dog Cafe. New members are welcome, dues are $25 for the year which will include your membership through to the end of 2010. Please feel free to join us and bring books or research materials with you that you would like to share with members. Even if you are new to genealogy or would like to document your family history, please feel free to join and learn with each other.
The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal Youth Council will be sponsoring a spaghetti dinner on Friday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. at the tribal building. The Youth Council determined that their community project would be for the installation of a baby changing station at the tribal building. Tickets in advance will be $10 for adults, children 12 and under and elders $5. Tickets at the door will be $12 for adults and $7 for children. For ticket information, please call 508-645-9265, extension 132.
The Thrift Shop, under the auspices of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, has initiated senior discount day. Every Thursday, everything in the store will be discounted 20 per cent for elders aged 55 and over. Kudos to the Thrift Shop for their recognition of our aging population, and the 55 years of age status which should really become universal.
Gary Coates has moved to Vineyard Haven for the winter months, probably to be closer to the gym and his work at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport. We will miss him around town in all of his volunteer emergency services but await his return in the springtime.
Fawn Vanderhoop Fantasia returned to her Aquinnah home this past week after a visit with her brother Edwin Vanderhoop, his wife Patricia and their children Mary and John at their home in Vermont.
Condolences to the family and many friends of Barbara (Mayhew) Donald who passed away recently at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Barbara would always recall wonderful tales of attending Tisbury School with our late father James Manning.
Condolences to the family and friends of Katharine Tweed. Mrs. Tweed was a renowned photographer who took it upon herself to capture the smiles and the lives in her photographs of our Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal Elders in 1959, thus beginning our Elders gallery, which she has shared with the Vineyard Museum as well as all who see her works on display at the tribal building.
Marjorie (Vanderhoop) Galbraith and her daughter Polly returned to their homes in Everett on Sunday night after spending the weekend in Aquinnah and visiting with their family and friends.
Happy birthday wishes this week to Clare Ives on Nov. 15, who shares the day with Brigelle Gibson.
A very special happy birthday wish to Mrs. Hannah L. Malkin as she observes her special day on Nov. 17.
Benjamin Booker will be 12 years old on Nov. 17. Tiffany Vanderhoop will party on Nov. 18. Erick P. Vanderhoop will celebrate on Nov. 20 and shares the day with Maxwell Butler.
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